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KMID : 1159320140160040493
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Korean Journal of Vision Science
2014 Volume.16 No. 4 p.493 ~ p.502
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The Characteristics of Vision and Hearing for Elderly People in Jeallanam-do
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Shin Eun-Yeong
Cho Soo-Jin
Joo Seok-Hee
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Abstract
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Purpose: This research was designed to measure that uncorrected vision, hearing, distribution of refraction error and hearing disability of elderly people living in Jeallanam-do. Also to investigate differences by age significance below .05 level, and to analyze correlation between vision and hearing results.
Methods: The elderly of sixty-seven subjects with mean ages were years old, were evaluated vision and hearing tests through visited at clinical center of Dept. of optometry and vision science and Dept. of speech-language pathology and audiology, university, or participated volunteer service at geriatric welfare center over the course of May through October of 2013.
Result: According to results of vision and hearing evaluation, uncorrected vision and hearing of comparative younger group (under 74 years) were worse than them of older age group (over 75 years) and showed differences by age. Hyperopia were larger than myopia in refraction errors totally, and hearing disabilities were more unfavorable as old age. Correlation of vision and hearing results were showed low level correlation but significantly negative correlation (p< .05).
Conclusion: The functions of peripheral system like vision or hearing were weakened as age increased, but correlations between vision and hearing were not enough high level. Through the research about various aspects of vision and hearing, basic data were prepared for welfare of increasing elderly people population.
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KEYWORD
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Elderly people, Vision, Hearing, Correlation of vision and hearing
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