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. 2021 Mar 1;181(3):383-385.
doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.5682.

Trends in Hearing Aid Ownership Among Older Adults in the United States From 2011 to 2018

Nicholas S Reed  1 , Emmanuel Garcia-Morales  1 , Amber Willink  1   2
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Trends in Hearing Aid Ownership Among Older Adults in the United States From 2011 to 2018

Nicholas S Reed et al. JAMA Intern Med. .

Abstract

This cohort study examines trends in hearing aid ownership in the US.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr Reed reported grants from the National Institute on Aging, consulting fees from Helen of Troy, and being a scientific advisory board member of Shoebox Inc and Good Machine Studio. Dr Willink reported grants from the Commonwealth Fund and Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health during the conduct of the study, personal fees from BioMedical Insights, and speaker honoraria from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association outside the submitted work. No other disclosures were reported.

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Figure.
Figure.. Proportion of Hearing Aid Use Among Adults 70 Years and Older by Sex and Race From 2011 to 2018
All proportions are age-adjusted according to the National Health Aging and Trends Study weighted sample size and age distribution.
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Comment in

  • Amplifying Access to Hearing Aids.
    Claytor J, Covinsky KE. Claytor J, et al. JAMA Intern Med. 2021 Mar 1;181(3):385-386. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.5638. JAMA Intern Med. 2021. PMID: 33284344 No abstract available.

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