ArticleInnovation in aging2021
Factors Associated With Hearing Aid Use Among Medicare Beneficiaries.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.
- Hearing Aid Service Models, Technology, and Patient Outcomes: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA otolaryngology-- head & neck surgery · 2025Trial
- Health insurance status and hearing aid utilization in U.S. older adults: A population-based cross-sectional study.PloS one · 2026Article
- Hearing Aid Adoption Rates: Perceptions, Attitudes, and Influencing Factors of Prospective Hearing Aid Users.Journal of the American Academy of Audiology · 2025Article
- Prevalence and predictors of self-reported hearing aid use and benefit in Norway: the HUNT study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Factors Associated With Longitudinal Patterns of Hearing Aid Use.Innovation in aging · 2024Article
- Consistent hearing aid use is associated with lower fall prevalence and risk in older adults with hearing loss.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2023Article
- In-situ hearing threshold estimation using Gaussian process classification.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Prevalence of Hearing Loss and Hearing Aid Use Among US Medicare Beneficiaries Aged 71 Years and Older.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- Trends in the level and composition of supplemental benefits in Medicare Advantage.Health affairs scholar · 2023Article
- Factors Impacting the Use or Rejection of Hearing Aids-A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- The Association Between Self-Reported Hearing Loss and Loss of Usual Source of Health Care Among Older Medicare Beneficiaries: Evidence From the National Health and Aging Trends Study.Innovation in aging · 2023Article
- Alternative Pathways for Hearing Care May Address Disparities in Access.Frontiers in digital health · 2021Article
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
objectivesIn the United States, up to two-thirds of older adults have hearing loss. Untreated hearing loss can have significant health outcomes, yet less than 20% of adults with hearing loss use hearing aids. In this study, we examined potential factors associated with hearing aid use, including detailed measures of health status, access to care, patient engagement, and technology use, in a nationally representative sample of Medicare beneficiaries. RESEARCH DESIGN AND
methodsCross-sectional study using the 2017 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey. Participants with self-reported hearing loss were included. The primary outcome was hearing aid use. Factors potentially associated with hearing aid use included: sociodemographics, health determinants, access to care, patient activation, and technology access/use.
resultsOverall, 5,146 participants were included. Of them, 27% reported using hearing aids. In a multivariable logistic regression model, predisposing factors associated with greater odds of hearing aid use included older age, identifying as a man, identifying as White, having completed college, having 3 or more chronic conditions, having dementia, not having trouble seeing, not having limitations in activities of daily living, having moderate relative to low information-seeking scores, and having a personal computer at home (range of odds ratios [ORs]: 1.22-4.46). Enabling factors associated with greater odds of hearing aid use included higher income, living alone relative to living with family members other than a spouse, and having a usual source of care (range of ORs: 1.43-1.54). DISCUSSION AND IMPLICATIONS: In addition to addressing previously identified factors associated with hearing aid use, improving access to health care, technology, and information about hearing aids may improve the uptake of hearing aids. These findings help further inform our understanding on how to address low treatment levels of hearing loss in the community by identifying new populations to target and potentially modifiable risk factors for hearing aid use.
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