Some Psychological Problems of Acquired Deafness
- 1 May 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 140 (5) , 453-456
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.140.5.453
Abstract
Summary: This pilot study seeks to identify the psychological problems in middle aged and elderly subjects with impaired hearing, and to determine whether hearing aids improve these.The results indicate three main areas of psychological handicap and suggest that these are reduced by the provision of a hearing aid.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Social and Psychological Implications of Acquired Deafness for Adults of Employment AgeBritish Journal of Audiology, 1980
- Environmental and Hereditary Factors in the Schizophrenias of Old Age (“Late Paraphrenia”) and their Bearing on the General Problem of Causation in SchizophreniaJournal of Mental Science, 1961