Development of a Community Health Worker Program to Address Hearing Loss
Year: 2017
Type: conference-abstract
Abstract: Hearing loss is independently associated with social isolation, increased utilization of informal and community supports, functional decline, and incident dementia. Treating hearing loss could potentially mitigate these effects and enhance communication and social engagement, but hearing care remains unaffordable and inaccessible. The Hearing Equality through Accessible Research and Solutions (HEARS) project is a first-in-kind community-based intervention to provide affordable and accessible hearing care to older adults and their communication partners to improve well-being and social engagement. Through a community-engaged process, we have developed a curriculum to train community health workers to provide the HEARS intervention. Five community members who participated in the HEARS feasibility study participated in a series of focus groups and mini-training sessions to guide the development of a comprehensive, practice-based curriculum. We will present qualitative results and analyses that demonstrate the relationship between the themes discussed by the community members and the curriculum.
Source: Innovation in Aging
Authors: S. Mamo, C.L. Nieman, J. Suen, F. Lin
Institution: Johns Hopkins University
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,977
OpenAlex ID: W2730040761