Journal article · Public health & policy← The news desk

✦ The Dispatch

What’s New about Getting Older

A dispatch from Canadian Audiologist — filed

Cover of the WHO guidelines second edition on risk reduction of cognitive decline and dementia, with a QR code at bottom left.
✦ PlateCover of the WHO guidelines second edition on risk reduction of cognitive decline and dementia, with a QR code at bottom left.

Back to School: Time to Refresh Evidence-based Practice on Dementia Risks and Dementia-inclusive Home and Community Care September is a great time to update Canadian audiologists on some important guidelines and standards with implications for hearing care that were published in the summer....

Continue reading at Canadian Audiologist

✦ The floor

Discussion

Signed responses from readers of the wire.

Clinical Takeaway

Audiologists should familiarise themselves with updated dementia-risk reduction guidelines and dementia-inclusive care standards, as hearing health is an established modifiable risk factor for dementia.

Why It Matters

With hearing loss recognised as a leading modifiable dementia risk factor, updated guidelines directly implicate audiology practice in broader public health strategies for dementia prevention.

Key Points
  1. 01Recently updated guidelines and standards on dementia risk and dementia-inclusive community care are reviewed.
  2. 02Hearing loss is a recognised modifiable risk factor for dementia in current guidelines.
  3. 03Audiologists are encouraged to align their practice with dementia-inclusive care frameworks.
  4. 04The column is written as a 'back-to-school' update for Canadian audiologists.
  5. 05Implications for hearing health practice in the context of an ageing population are highlighted.
Claims & Evidence

Hearing loss is a modifiable risk factor for dementia, as reflected in recently updated guidelines.

guidelinesupported

Audiologists should incorporate dementia-inclusive care standards into their everyday practice.

guidelinepartially supported
Research metadata
Journal
Canadian Audiologist
Publication type
editorial
Evidence level
5
Population
Older adults at risk for dementia; Canadian audiologists
Intervention
Application of updated dementia-risk reduction guidelines in hearing health practice

Primary outcomes

Awareness and application of dementia guidelines in audiology practice

Related stories