Volume 105
March 30, 2022
  • Tap Directly
  • Broadly Categorized
  • Subject Matter Expertise (Again)
  • Don’t Reinvent the Wheel
  • 9 Facts, 1 Goal. Dementia Awareness
  • Pearls of Wisdom Refresher


As our Better Hearing is Better Healthcare journey goes with the flow, we tap directly into our Did You Know? comorbidity collection.
Interestingly, our educational topic array may (recognizing overlap and interpretation) be broadly categorized:

Systemic, including: Diabetes, Heart Disease, Kidney Disease and Ototoxicity

Relational, including: Vision Loss, Risk of Falls, Noise-Induced Hearing Loss and Tinnitus

Psychosocial, including: Depression

Brain-Related, including: Dementia and Cognitive Decline

Guided by Issue #103, recognizing the “Uniquely intertwined nature of hearing and brain functions”, we emphasized:
“Within hearing care circles, to what degree have “brain hearing” references increased in consultative lexicon over recent years? For illustration purposes, IF quantifiable, might representative trends and projections slope upper right? For many valid reasons, this topic’s importance gains rapidly.”
With mindful aims, this series of issues will motivate initiatives to Amplify Influence via promoting Subject Matter Expertise with Brain-Related, topics including:

  • Dementia and Cognitive Decline

To time and cost-effectively do so, with will and skill….

Why Start with Dementia?

Given Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia’s epidemic trends, hearing care professionals intently boost community awareness of useful resources.

More than 6 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's. By 2050, this number is projected to rise to nearly 13 million.

1 in 3 seniors dies with Alzheimer's or another dementia. It kills more than breast cancer and prostate cancer combined.

In 2020, COVID-19 contributed to a 17% increase in Alzheimer's and dementia deaths.

In 2022, Alzheimer's and other dementias will cost the nation $321 billion. By 2050, these costs could reach nearly $1 trillion.

More than 11 million Americans provide unpaid care for people with Alzheimer's or other dementias.

In 2021, these caregivers provided more than 16 billion hours of care valued at nearly $272 billion.

Fewer than 1 in 5 Americans are familiar with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), which can be an early stage of Alzheimer's.

90% of physicians say it's important to diagnose MCI due to Alzheimer's, but over half say they are not fully comfortable diagnosing it.

About one-third of people with MCI due to Alzheimer's disease develop dementia within 5 years of diagnosis.*

*https://www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/facts-figures

“Research is to see what everybody else has seen,
and to think what nobody else has thought.”
—Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

All our Did You Know? research-based content reputably signifies high integrity, resolutely so. Realizing dedicated researchers devote years and careers to publish peer-reviewed literature, we created a proprietary collection of topical synopses referred to as The Pearls of Wisdom™. 
As a refresher from September 16, 2020 issue:

“At the core of each Did You Know? topic is our Pearls of Wisdom, a valuable research synopsis for you, colleagues, referral sources and occasional patients (an engineer perhaps?) eager to learn from reputable resources like you.

“As best practices will attest, Pearls of Wisdom are insightful catalysts for internal reference, team training, patient consults and community outreach. Exclusively designed with a research paper flow, each edition features sections on:
  • Reference Terms
  • Introduction and Public Health Policy Importance
  • Key Research Statistics
  • Key Research Results and Discussion
  • Practical and Clinical Applications
  • Research References

“By selecting pertinent peer-reviewed journal articles, highlighting intently and integrating key points, this useful resource consistently differentiates your practice. With hundreds of thousands of words distilled into a proprietary collection of concise formats, hearing care leaders are empowered to naturally convey vital educational information in patient-friendly ways.”

Further, previewing next week’s issue:

“To facilitate learning objective achievement, our Essential Knowledge, Well Applied how-to guide details goals and utilization ideas for each section.”

See you then when Dementia-focused Pearls of Wisdom™ excerpts await.
Bruce Essman
CEO
High Definition Impressions (HDI)



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