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....
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Discussion
Signed responses from readers of the wire.
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.
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.
- 01Recently updated guidelines and standards on dementia risk and dementia-inclusive community care are reviewed.
- 02Hearing loss is a recognised modifiable risk factor for dementia in current guidelines.
- 03Audiologists are encouraged to align their practice with dementia-inclusive care frameworks.
- 04The column is written as a 'back-to-school' update for Canadian audiologists.
- 05Implications for hearing health practice in the context of an ageing population are highlighted.
Hearing loss is a modifiable risk factor for dementia, as reflected in recently updated guidelines.
guidelinesupportedAudiologists should incorporate dementia-inclusive care standards into their everyday practice.
guidelinepartially supported- 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
