[Acceptance by and evaluation of unidirectional hearing systems by patients in outpatient and (partial) inpatient geriatric psychiatric care].

Hearing impairment in geriatric psychiatric patients is common and often not adequately treated with conventional hearing aids, yet hearing-improving measures are only used to a limited extent. Mostly positive results among the users of hearing-improving measures favor their implementation in patients in routine outpatient and (partial) inpatient geriatric psychiatric care.