Quality of life and participation restrictions, a study in elderly Qualidade de Vida e restrição de participação: um estudo em idosos

According to the IBGE, Brazil had 21 million elderly persons in 2008. OBJECTIVE: To study the effects of speech therapy - fitting of hearing aids - on the quality of life of elderly persons and restriction of participation according to sex and age. MATERIAL AND METHOD: 50 elderly subjects, 23 female...

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Main Authors: Ruth Magalhães, Maria Cecilia Martinelli Iório
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2011-10-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1808-86942011000500016