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Affirmative Clinical Practice with LGBTQ Patients: Creating a Welcoming and Comfortable Experience for All
Surveys suggest that 4.5% of American adults, and an even greater percentage of American youth, openly identify as LGBTQ. About one-sixth of LGBTQ adults say they have experienced healthcare discrimination. Unacknowledged implicit bias has detrimental impacts in our interactions in the clinic and the larger venues of our lives, even when we believe ourselves to be nondiscriminatory. Here are some ideas and guidelines for making your practice more welcoming and comfortable for everyone.
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Ida Institute Telecare Patient Survey Tools Now Available as a Feature in Blueprint Solution’s OMS
Ida Telecare offers people with hearing loss tools and resources to help them prepare for appointments and successfully manage daily communication. These online survey form tools can now be issued to the patient directly from Blueprint OMS, and once completed by the patient, stored in the patient record automatically.
Ida Institute Partners with FindHearing.com
Members of the Inspired by Ida program can be featured in the newly launched FindHearing.com searchable online directory of independent clinics that allows consumers to find professional care in their area.
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Ida Institute to Hold Inaugural Person-Centered Hearing Network Meeting
The meeting will bring together representatives of patient organizations, educational institutions, professional organizations, and care providers from around the world to exchange knowledge and ideas and discuss concrete collaboration opportunities.
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Ida Institute Partners with Leightons Opticians & Hearing Care and Hearing Care Partnership
The partnership is said to be part of Ida’s larger effort to engage with organizations around the world to strengthen and promote a culture of person-centered care (PCC) in audiology by teaming up with professional organizations, patient associations, and universities around the world.
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Ida Institute Partners with Leightons Opticians & Hearing Care and Hearing Care Partnership
The partnership is said to be part of Ida’s larger effort to engage with organizations around the world to strengthen and promote a culture of person-centered care (PCC) in audiology by teaming up with professional organizations, patient associations, and universities around the world.
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Shari Eberts Releases New E-Book, ‘Person-centered Care from the Patient’s Perspective’
In the book, Eberts shares her personal hearing loss journey, examines her experiences with audiologists over the years, and lays out her formula for person-centered care from the patient’s point of view.
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Playing Different Notes: The Benefits of Motivational Interviewing in Hearing Healthcare
Patients will often remember and appreciate your “bedside manner”– or the way you relate to them in a personal and caring way–over your knowledge, skill, education, and professionalism. Using an improvisational approach to the patient interview may, at times, be cumbersome. However, it is also likely to make your approach to their hearing-related problems more interesting, genuine, and meaningful—for both the patient and you.
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Ida Institute to Introduce New Resources at AAA 2019, March 27-29
The Ida Institute announced it will introduce a number of new resources and initiatives at the 2019 American Academy of Audiology (AAA) Conference, from apps, to eLearning courses, and various new projects aimed at advancing person-centered practices in hearing care.
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HHTM Releases New Book, ‘Interpersonal Audiology,’ by Brian Taylor, AuD
In the ”New Age” of patient autonomy—as persons with hearing loss increasingly have the ability to self-direct their care by testing and purchasing hearing devices over-the-counter—counseling and customization are components that still require a human element, and at the heart of this human element is Interpersonal Audiology.
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ASHA and Ida Institute Announce Partnership
The organizations plan to meet quarterly for the foreseeable future and gradually introduce the deliverables of their new collaboration.
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New Research Highlights Outcomes of Ida Institute’s Methods and Tools
Since 2016, the Ida Institute Research Committee has awarded research grants to projects that investigate the outcomes of using Ida Institute methods and tools and develop evidence to show the effect of person-centered hearing care.
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Ten Minutes of Social Interaction Per Day May Improve Dementia Care
The Wellbeing and Health for people with Dementia (WHELD) program trained care home staff to increase social interaction from two minutes a day to 10, combined with a program of personalized care. It involves simple measures such as talking to residents about their interests and involving them in decisions around their care.
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Ida Institute Holds Educational Workshop for Hearing Care Professionals
The workshop is part of the Ida Institute’s continuing work to develop tangible and easy-to-use tools for hearing care professionals and people with hearing loss.
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Ida Institute Awards 2018 Research Grants for Three Projects
Each year, up to $10,000 in funding is awarded by the Ida Institute to three projects that develop evidence related to Ida Institute methods and tools and aim to demonstrate the effectiveness of person-centered care in hearing rehabilitation.
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The Ida Institute to Introduce New Quality Benchmark at AAA 2018
By joining the program, hearing care professionals can learn how to apply person-centered care in their practice through two dedicated online courses. Once they have completed the courses, they receive the “Inspired by Ida” label—a “benchmark of quality,” according to the Ida Institute, which can be easily shared across social media and various digital platforms.
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Ida Institute Announces New Partnerships
The partnerships are part of the Ida Institute’s effort to create a network of organizations that work together towards a more person-centered approach to hearing care, the Institute reports.
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