Elderly people with hearing loss and cognitive decline: speech perception performance in noise.
Maria Julia Ferreira CardosoKatia de Freitas AlvarengaMaria de Lourdes Merighi TabaquimTatiana de Andrade LopesOrozimbo Alves CostaLilian Cassia Bornia JacobPublished in: CoDAS (2024)
The decline in verbal intellectual-cognitive skills did not affect speech perception of noise in the elderly with hearing loss. The degree of hearing loss and level of education influenced the performance of the elderly in the speech perception test in noise. Performance in verbal cognitive skills varied according to the level of education.