Hearing Screening App for Early Identification of Hearing Loss in Ageing Community
Hearing Screening App for Early Identification of Hearing Loss in Ageing Community
Aiming to promote healthy ageing and lifestyle, the project provides a low-cost and high-efficiency pure-tone hearing screening test to help elderly citizens who have hearing loss to regain the abilities and motivation for communication.
Grantee
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Project Type
Research
Project Nature
Healthcare
Major Beneficiaries
Elderly
Approved Funding Amount
HK$394,443
Funding Period (months)
21
Status
Completed
Impact / Expected Impact
This project aims to enhance health aging and healthy lifestyle, through enabling elderly citizens who have hearing loss to regain the abilities and motivation for communication, by providing a low cost and high efficiency pure-tone hearing screening test to the local aging community, for example through elderly centres, day care centres, and nursing home. Target beneficiaries include elderly people and their caregivers.