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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2014. Hearing Loss and Healthy Aging: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18735.
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Appendix A

Workshop Agenda

Hearing Loss and Healthy Aging: A Workshop

January 1314, 2014

The Keck Center of the National Academies
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001

Sponsored by:
IOM-NRC Forum on Aging, Disability, and Independence
Academy of Doctors of Audiology
American Academy of Audiology
American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Cochlear Americas

European Hearing Instrument Manufacturers Association
Hearing Industries Association
Hearing Loss Association of America
Hi HealthInnovations
MED-EL Corporation, USA
National Institute on Aging
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Sound World Solutions

Hearing Loop System provided by Contacta, Inc.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2014. Hearing Loss and Healthy Aging: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18735.
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Workshop Objectives

  • Describe and characterize the public health significance of hearing loss and the relationship between hearing loss and healthy aging.
  • Examine and explore current and future areas of research.
  • Discuss comprehensive hearing rehabilitative strategies, including innovative models of care.
  • Explore innovative hearing technologies and barriers to their development and use.
  • Consider and discuss short- and long-term collaborative strategies for approaching age-related hearing loss as a public health priority.
  DAY ONE: January 13, 2014
9:00 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
  Alan M. Jette, Workshop Co-Chair
  Boston University School of Public Health
   
  Frank R. Lin, Workshop Co-Chair
  Johns Hopkins University

CONSUMER PERSPECTIVE ON THE IMPACT OF HEARING LOSS

9:30 a.m. Katherine Bouton, Author, Shouting Won’t Help

SESSION I: AGING AND HEARING LOSS: WHY DOES IT MATTER?

9:50 a.m. Introductions
  Frank R. Lin (Moderator)
  Johns Hopkins University
9:55 a.m. Series of Presentations
  Luigi Ferrucci, National Institute on Aging
  James Firman, National Council on Aging
  Kathleen Pichora-Fuller, University of Toronto
   
10:25 a.m. Discussion with Speakers and Audience

SESSION II: THE CONNECTION BETWEEN HEARING LOSS AND HEALTHY AGING

10:45 a.m. Introductions
  Luigi Ferrucci (Moderator)
  National Institute on Aging
   
Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2014. Hearing Loss and Healthy Aging: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18735.
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10:50 a.m. Series of Presentations
   
  Impact on Cognition
 

Marilyn Albert, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

   
  Impact on Physical Functioning
  Alan M. Jette, Boston University School of Public Health
   
  Psychosocial Impacts
 

Barbara Weinstein, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York

   
11:40 a.m. Discussion with Speakers and Audience

SESSION III: CURRENT APPROACHES TO HEARING HEALTH CARE DELIVERY

1:15 p.m. Introductions
  Lucille B. Beck (Moderator)
  U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
   
1:20 p.m. Series of Presentations
   
  The Spectrum of Hearing Impairment
 

Theresa Hnath Chisolm, University of South Florida

   
  The Current U.S. Hearing Health Model
 

Margaret I. Wallhagen, University of California, San Francisco

   
  International Perspective
  Nikolai Bisgaard, GN ReSound A/S
   
2:35 p.m. Discussion with Speakers and Audience

SESSION IV: INNOVATIVE MODELS

3:30 p.m. Introductions
  Nikolai Bisgaard (Moderator)
  GN ReSound A/S
Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2014. Hearing Loss and Healthy Aging: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18735.
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3:35 p.m. Series of Presentations
   
  Community Health Workers1
  Nicole Marrone, University of Arizona
   
  Teleaudiology
  Gabrielle Saunders, Portland VA Medical Center
   
  Addressing Untreated Age-Related Hearing Loss in a Primary Care Setting
  Thomas Powers, Powers Family Practice
   
4:20 p.m. Discussion with Speakers and Audience
   
4:50 p.m. Day 1 Reflections and Closing Remarks
   
5:00 p.m. Adjourn Day 1

DAY TWO: January 14, 2014

9:00 a.m. Welcome
  Alan M. Jette, Workshop Co-Chair
  Boston University School of Public Health
   
  Frank R. Lin, Workshop Co-Chair
  Johns Hopkins University

SESSION V: HEARING TECHNOLOGIES

9:05 a.m. Introductions
  Brenda Battat (Moderator)
  Hearing Loss Association of America (Retired)
   
9:10 a.m. Series of Presentations
   
  Technology Overview
  Cynthia Compton-Conley, Compton-Conley Consulting

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1 This presentation was prepared by Nicole Marrone, assistant professor and James S. and Dyan Pignatelli/Unisource Clinical Chair in Audiologic Rehabilitation for Adults at the University of Arizona, but due to unforeseen circumstances, was presented by Theresa Chisolm.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2014. Hearing Loss and Healthy Aging: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18735.
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  FDA Regulation of Hearing Aids
  Eric A. Mann, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
   
  Technology Assessment
  Fiona Miller, University of Toronto
   
10:10 a.m. Discussion with Speakers and Audience

HEARING TECHNOLOGIES FROM A CONSUMER PERSPECTIVE

10:55 a.m. Richard Einhorn, Composer, Voices of Light

SESSION VI: AGING AND HEARING LOSS: WHY DOES IT MATTER?

11:15 a.m. Introductions
  Karen J. Cruickshanks (Moderator)
 

University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

   
11:20 a.m. Series of Presentations
   
  Lessons in Innovation
  David Green, Sound World Solutions
   
  The Function and Importance of Wireless Standards
  Stephen Berger, TEM Consulting
   
  Universal Design
  Valerie Fletcher, Institute for Human Centered Design
   
12:20 p.m. Discussion with Speakers and Audience

SESSION VII: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN HEARING HEALTH CARE

1:45 p.m. Introductions
  Carole M. Rogin (Moderator)
  Hearing Industries Association
Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2014. Hearing Loss and Healthy Aging: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18735.
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1:50 p.m. Series of Presentations
   
  Healthy People 2001–2020: Tracking Age-Related Measures of Hearing Health in the New Millennium
 

Howard J. Hoffman, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health (NIDCD/NIH)

   
  The Changing Hearing Healthcare Landscape
  Robert Burkard, University at Buffalo
   
  NIDCD Research Working Group on Accessible and Affordable Hearing Health Care
 

Amy M. Donahue, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health (NIDCD/NIH)

  Judy R. Dubno, Medical University of South Carolina
  Lucille B. Beck, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
   
2:35 p.m. Discussion with Speakers and Audience

SESSION VIII: COLLABORATIVE STRATEGIES FOR THE FUTURE

3:05 p.m. Reactions and Discussion
  James Firman (Moderator), National Council on Aging
  Regina Davis Moss, American Public Health Association
 

James Pacala, American Geriatrics Society and University of Minnesota Medical School

  Charlotte Yeh, AARP
   
3:40 p.m. Discussion with Speakers and Audience
   
4:05 p.m. Closing Remarks
  Alan M. Jette, Workshop Co-Chair
  Boston University School of Public Health
   
  Frank R. Lin, Workshop Co-Cchair
  Johns Hopkins University
   
4:20 p.m. Adjourn
Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2014. Hearing Loss and Healthy Aging: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18735.
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Being able to communicate is a cornerstone of healthy aging. People need to make themselves understood and to understand others to remain cognitively and socially engaged with families, friends, and other individuals. When they are unable to communicate, people with hearing impairments can become socially isolated, and social isolation can be an important driver of morbidity and mortality in older adults. Despite the critical importance of communication, many older adults have hearing loss that interferes with their social interactions and enjoyment of life. People may turn up the volume on their televisions or stereos, miss words in a conversation, go to fewer public places where it is difficult to hear, or worry about missing an alarm or notification. In other cases, hearing loss is much more severe, and people may retreat into a hard-to-reach shell. Yet fewer than one in seven older Americans with hearing loss use hearing aids, despite rapidly advancing technologies and innovative approaches to hearing health care. In addition, there may not be an adequate number of professionals trained to address the growing need for hearing health care for older adults. Further, Medicare does not cover routine hearing exams, hearing aids, or exams for fitting hearing aids, which can be prohibitively expensive for many older adults.

Hearing Loss and Healthy Aging is the summary of a workshop convened by the Forum on Aging, Disability, and Independence in January 2014 on age-related hearing loss. Researchers, advocates, policy makers, entrepreneurs, regulators, and others discussed this pressing social and public health issue. This report examines the ways in which age-related hearing loss affects healthy aging, and how the spectrum of public and private stakeholders can work together to address hearing loss in older adults as a public health issue.

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