Guest Paul Young Posted February 19, 2015 Report Share Posted February 19, 2015 Is this any information on someone with dementia receiving a CI? Does the confusion of dementia make it more difficult to get used to the CI? Paul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HearPeers Heroes Adam Posted May 23, 2015 HearPeers Heroes Report Share Posted May 23, 2015 Paul, that is a tough one to answer. I think the best thing to do is to consult all the doctors involved with the patient including a CI surgeon as well. The persons doctors know them the best and have a detailed history of the patient so they would be able to make the best call for the patient in that matter. Adam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HearPeers Heroes Ivana Marinac Posted May 23, 2015 HearPeers Heroes Report Share Posted May 23, 2015 Hi Paul, Your question is very interesting from the point of view that scientific community try to support even more within the population of older CI population. It is hard to be razor sharped, but dementia should not judge against the implantation - event hard demented person has right to hear, although there comes valid question: how to conduct the rehabilitation process? This is more ethical question than technical and it depends on the implantation team: the implantation is the most simplest question, the rehabilitation question is the real one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HearPeers Heroes Adam Posted June 4, 2015 HearPeers Heroes Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 Ivana, you bring up an interesting point. Has there been anybody out there that has developed strategies for rehab in such cases that would make it quite challenging to get optimal results. That could almost be a separate specialty in the audio logical field. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HearPeers Heroes Ivana Marinac Posted June 4, 2015 HearPeers Heroes Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 Actually Adam - I am not certain how is in USA, but in my country speech therapists, psychologists/therapists are dealing with this matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HearPeers Heroes Adam Posted June 4, 2015 HearPeers Heroes Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 not being in the field, I am not sure what is being done about this. The next time I see my Audi I will ask. Interesting subject to think about as they deserve every right to hear just as the rest of us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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