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Welcome to AHEAD III
AHEAD III - Assessment of Hearing in the Elderly: Aging and Degeneration - Integration through Immediate Intervention (2008-2011)
Europe is facing the burden of its ageing population. Europe is living in an era of unprecedented, rapid and inexorable global ageing (20% over 60 in 2000, 28% by 2020!). The imperative to prevent, delay, minimize and reverse functional decline of elderly is becoming more and more pressing as the size of the older population in Europe grows.
Project AHEAD III has been specifically designed to:
- Provide evidence of the effects of hearing impairment in adults and particularly in the elderly;
- Increase the awareness among administrators, policy makers, health care professionals and the public opinion about early detection and intervention for hearing impairment in adults and particularly in the elderly;
- Analyse costs associated with the implementation of integrated large scale, or nationwide, programmes of hearing screening and intervention in adults;
- Provide minimum requirements for screening methods and the related diagnostic techniques;
- Develop recommendations and guidelines on how to implement successful screening programmes using the variety of available methods, and begin setting new criteria for recently proposed technologies (screening over the phone, over the internet, etc.) and methods for hearing disability screening;
AHEAD III Questionnaire
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Contribute to our questionnaire on "Interventions following hearing screening in adults"
- Hearing Screening in Adults and Elderly is Gaining Momentum presentation by Ferdi Grandori at the Phonak International Conference
"Hearing Care for Adults 2009 - The Challenge of Aging"
November 16-18, 2009, Chicago Illinois, USA - International Conference on Adult Hearing Screening June 10-12, 2010, Cernobbio, Italy
- Special Session/Round Table at the IAPA XVth Anniversary Symposium in Audiological Medicine
September 19-22, 2010, Krakow, Poland