HEARS-SLP: Providing SLP-Delivered Hearing Health Care to Individuals With Cognitive Impairment

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Conditions studied: Hearing Loss, Dementia, Cognitive Impairment

In brief

Building upon the HEARS audiologist-community health worker (CHW) model, this study intervention will be delivered by a speech-language pathologist (SLP). The primary objective of the study is to develop and test an affordable and accessible hearing rehabilitative intervention that will be delivered by a SLP to individuals with cognitive impairment.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT06008782

Run by

Johns Hopkins University

People needed

77

Starts

2023-12-15

Expected to finish

2026-02-24

Last updated by the study team

2026-02-27

Who can join

Age: 60 and older, up to 100. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Age 60 - 100 years old
• English-speaking
• Lives at home
• Diagnosis of probable Alzheimer's Disease or other related dementia according to the core clinical criteria outlined in the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and Alzheimer's Association Guidelines
• Availability of caregiver/study partner to participate in all study-related visits and who provides ≥8 hours of weekly oversight/care
• Speech frequency pure tone average (0.5- 4 kHz) >25 db in the better-hearing ear; adult onset hearing loss
• Stable (for 2 weeks or longer) dosing of medication (e.g. antidepressants, antipsychotics) for neuropsychiatric symptoms

You may not qualify if…

• Current self-reported use of hearing aid or amplification device
• Medical contraindication to use hearing aids ( e.g. draining ears)
• Inability to participate in the 1-month follow up

Where it is running

• Johns Hopkins Medicine — Baltimore, Maryland, United States

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