Deafness is enough
As people get older, they begin to hear less and this is the experience of most people at an advanced age. It is a progressive disorder, usually affecting both ears, often accompanied by hearing whistling, noise or ringing in the ears. There is an increasingly difficult understanding of human speech in bustling and noise situations.
Early prodromal symptoms
A frequent problem associated with the aging of the hearing organ is hearing unpleasant tinnitus. This usually occurs when there is a disease or degenerative process in the inner ear.
At first, hearing loss usually occurs
Hearing loss, because it is initially mentioned, usually concerns high frequency sounds (1500-4000 Hz) and only later applies to lower frequencies (500-1500 Hz). In the extreme form, in old people there is total deafness.
Deafness
Deafness is the lack of ability to hear acoustic stimuli, resulting either from disturbances in the conduction of sounds to the inner ear (conductive deafness), or from damage to the sense cells of the hearing organ, or subsequent neurons leading auditory stimuli in the vestibular-cochlear nerve to auditory auditory fields in the cerebral cortex (receiving deafness).
Hearing loss occurs, followed by deafness:
· Cell atrophy in the Corti organ
· Nerve cell atrophy in the vestibulo-cochlear nerve
· Vascular atrophy supplying blood to the stria vascularia
A popular remedy - hearing aids
Most problems associated with hearing loss in old age can be corrected today by using increasingly better hearing aids. Their effectiveness depends, however, on the general mental state of the patient. People with marked dementia are not able to use them, despite their low-level service
Doctor of Medicine Janusz Krzyżowski
psychiatrist
