How would you approach counseling an older patient with significant hearing loss and nonadherence to use of hearing aids?
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Using my own grandmother as an example, hearing aides were an affront to her vanity, and she perceived them as a sign of weakness in aging…and she probably felt as if they were thrust upon her by the family—so, in the end, she was stuck in silence within her own world—which was a sad and lonely and ...
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