Determine the Effect on Cognitive Impairment Measures by Providing Hearing-Assistance to Skilled Nursing Facility Residents



Status:Withdrawn
Conditions:Other Indications, Other Indications
Therapuetic Areas:Other
Healthy:No
Age Range:18 - Any
Updated:11/11/2017
Start Date:January 2018
End Date:January 2019

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Trial Summary
Trial Overview
Inclusion Criteria
The purpose of the study is to see if a commercially available hearing assistance device
called the PockeTalker has an effect on performance on cognitive (memory and thinking) tests
among skilled nursing facility residents.

Investigators are asking residents to perform cognitive tests with and without hearing
assistance equipment known as PockeTalkers. This study will be conducted at one urban Skilled
Nursing Facility (SNF) with the goal of understanding the extent to which hearing impairment
impacts commonly used cognitive impairment measures for clinical assessment. Cognitive
performance will be measured, cerumen occlusion, and perceived hearing.


Inclusion Criteria:

- admitted to unit of intervention

- ability to communicate and follow simple commands

- capacity to consent assessed with standard questions used to assess capacity or having
a surrogate who can provide consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

- not on the unit of intervention

- obtunded or comatose state

- inability to communicate verbally

- inability to consent and without surrogate

- non-English speaking
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New York University School of Medicine
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New York, New York 10016
(212) 263-7300
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