Presbycusis is the most common type of Sensorineural Hearing Loss caused by the natural aging of the auditory system. Characteristically, presbycusis involves bilateral high-frequency hearing loss associated with difficulty in speech discrimination and central auditory processing of information. This article gives a brief description of the causative factors, diagnosis, and treatment of presbycusis. Presbycusis presentation usually patient-specific and is a result of the various combinations of cochlear and neural changes that have occurred.
Patients typically may have more difficulty understanding rapidly spoken language, vocabulary that is less familiar or more complex, and speech within a noisy, distracting environment. Causative factors Although the precise etiology of presbycusis is unclear yet, the cause of presbycusis is generally agreed to be multifactorial. Proposed causes in…
