# AUDITORY REHABILITATION OF THE ELDERLY

> **NIH NIH R01** · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · 1992 · $131,976

## Abstract

This project will compare the efficacy of conventional hearing aids and
personal assistive listening devices (ALDs) for the elderly
hearing-impaired.  The comparison will be made on the basis of
self-reported handicap scales, quality-of-life scales, and measures of
speech understanding.  In addition, the differential effects of degree of
peripheral hearing loss, central auditory processing disorder, cognitive
deficit, personality traits, and social support factors on the successful
use of either system will be assessed.  A total of 280 elderly subjects
will participate in the study.  They will be initially screened to assure
bilateral sensori-neural hearing loss, adequate physical health and
adequate mental health.  Then a series of predictor and outcome measures
will be administered.  Predictor measures will include pure-tone,
immittance, and diagnostic speech audiometry, sociodemographic
characteristics, a social support questionnaire, a personality inventory,
and measures of memory, attention, and manual dexterity. outcome measures
will include the Hearing Handicap Inventory for the Elderly (HHIE), a
scale of social activity, a scale of life satisfaction in the elderly, an
inventory of emotional status, and the SPIN test.  Each subject will then
be subjected to four treatment conditions: 1) hearing aid alone; 2) ALD
alone; 3) hearing aid plus remote microphone; and 4) no prosthetic device
(i.e., no treatment).  The full set of pre-intervention outcome measures
will be repeated after the completion of each treatment condition.

Results will be analyzed in two ways.  First, the difference between
pre-intervention and post-intervention outcome measures will be compared
for the two amplification systems.  Second, the extent to which each of
the predictor measures can explain differences in the outcome measures
across the two amplification systems will be determined.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 3120756
- **Project number:** 5R01AG008958-02
- **Recipient organization:** BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
- **SAM.gov UEI:** FXKMA43NTV21
- **Principal Investigator:** JAMES F JERGER
- **Activity code:** R01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 1992
- **Award amount:** $131,976
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1991-04-01 → 1996-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3120756

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 3120756, AUDITORY REHABILITATION OF THE ELDERLY (5R01AG008958-02). Retrieved via MORVS 2026-10-25 from https://api.morvs.ai/grant/nih/3120756. Licensed CC0.

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