The goal of the HAHA trial is to prove that the treatment of HI and prevention of HI-related cognitive decline are most likely to be effective if HI is approached as a broader neurodegenerative entity with multifaceted manifestations currently unaddressed in clinical practice and managed using a novel individualised data-driven protocol for early hearing rehabilitation. The main hypothesis is that, compared with standard care, the data-driven rehabilitation will likely have broader benefits manifested in three key areas: hearing, cognition, and quality of life and psychosocial outcomes. Participants will be randomized 1:1 to either intervention (individualised data-driven hearing rehabilitation) or control group (standard care hearing rehabilitation). The primary objective of this study is to investigate the effect of an optimized data-driven hearing rehabilitation protocol versus standard care protocol on change in speech perception in noise (SPIN) in older adults with mild to moderately severe sensorineural HI and without dementia.
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Finnish Matrix Sentence Test (FMST)
Timeframe: Change measures: 0 months, 12 months, 24 months
Digits in Noise test (DIN)
Timeframe: Change measures: 0 months, 12 months, 24 months