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A survey of participants from the HearingTracker community and Lexie user database suggested that OTC hearing aid users were significantly younger, had a shorter duration of hearing loss, and had milder hearing difficulties than prescription hearing aid users. OTC users were more likely to procure hearing aids because of difficulty interacting socially and listening fatigue, while prescription users were older and reported consequences of untreated hearing loss as a motivating factor for hearing aid uptake 5.5 times more often.

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Subjects over 70 years of age do not show the same absolute benefit nor the same learning curve after 2 years of cochlear implantation as younger subjects. The study results suggest three different profiles of plasticity may explain these disparities: 1) the Awakening profile, where there is a reversal of the central changes induced by deafness; 2) the Stabilization/Counteracting profile, where CIs stabilize against processes of speech/cognitive abilities, and 3) the Decline profile where independently evolving central processes are present that my make aural rehab less apparent.