Aims

Dr Gonzalez’s team are developing a 4 week home based intervention to ensure people with hearing loss and mild cognitive impairment start and continue to use hearing aids.This includes a daily diary, weekly contact with researchers, and working with family and carers to understand personal habits. They will recruit 76 volunteers of over 55 years of age diagnosed with hearing loss and mild cognitive impairment. They will then split the volunteers into two groups, one group will have the four week intervention, while the other will be treated as usual for hearing loss. After eight months, the researchers will follow up on the participants to see if they are still using hearing aids.