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Author: Frank R. Lin, MD PhD, Director of the Cochlear Center Each year at the Cochlear Center we produce an annual report that summarizes our successes in research, training and policy work. In the midst of the day to day of life it can be hard to see the bigger picture. But it is very, very satisfying to look at a year in its entirety and notice patterns, celebrate forgotten successes (…
Author: Frank Lin, MD, PhD, Director of the Cochlear Center It’s only April, but it feels like 2020 has already brought a year’s worth of challenges and changes as the world navigates the upheaval created by the global COVID-19 pandemic. Here at the Cochlear Center, we are following the directives of Johns Hopkins University and Bloomberg School of Public Health leadership to protect our…
Author: Nicholas S. Reed, AuD OTC hearing aids won’t be out until at the earliest 2020-2021 once the regulations go into effect. What to do until then? Enter the PSAP. In a previous blog post, we talked about the Over-The-Counter (OTC) Hearing Aid Act. However, OTC hearing aids won’t be out until at the earliest 2020-2021 once the regulations go into effect. What to do until then? Enter…
Author: Nicholas S. Reed, AuD "Blindness cuts us off from things, but deafness cuts us off from people" -- Helen Keller The onset of hearing loss can impact the quality of life in older adults. Helping others with their hearing needs to improve overall quality of life is why I became a clinical audiologist. In 2015, I decided to change my path from a full-time clinician career to a…
Author: Adele Goman, Ph.D., Graphics: Mengru Liao, MA Knowing how many people have hearing loss today is important for informing policy decisions and planning services to address hearing needs. In an article published in the American Journal of Public Health, we estimated the percentage of, and number of, individuals with hearing loss in the United States. To estimate how many people have…
By Carrie Nieman, featuring Kevin DeMario Hearing loss is common as we age but hearing aid use, the primary approach to managing hearing loss, is not. Nationally, only about 15-20% of older adults with hearing loss use hearing aids. As with almost every other health condition in the United States, disparities in hearing health care exist based on race/ethnicity and socioeconomic…
Author: Dr. Frank Lin With the launch of the new website for the Cochlear Center, I thought it’d be a great time to talk about the broader picture for how a Center focused on hearing loss and aging fits into the broader schema of public health. Namely, when most people think of public health, topics such as preventing infectious diseases or reducing rates of cardiovascular disease generally come…
