Self-reported hearing and awareness of age-related change

Impaired hearing is associated with disadvantages in developmental outcomes, such as compromised everyday social communication or reduced well-being. Hearing impairment might also have an impact on how individuals evaluate their own aging as deterioration in hearing can be interpreted as being age-related and as a phenomenon individuals attribute to getting older. This study investigated how self-reported hearing is related to awareness of age-related change (AARC). AARC is a multidimensional construct comprising perceived age-related gains and losses in general as well as across five functional domains (health…