Oticon, Inc announced that it again joins Homes For Our Troops (HFOT) to support the national non-profit organization’s work of building and donating specially adapted custom homes nationwide to severely injured post-9/11 veterans, helping enable them to “rebuild their lives.” These veterans have sustained multiple amputations, paralysis, blindness, or traumatic brain injury. Oticon has supported the Homes For Our Troops mission since 2017.
The drug, called ISRIB, has already been shown in laboratory studies to restore memory function months after traumatic brain injury (TBI), reverse cognitive impairments in Down Syndrome, prevent noise-related hearing loss, fight certain types of prostate cancer, and even enhance cognition in healthy animals.
From our experience as clinicians who serve the age-80+ population and the emerging scientific evidence about this patient group, it is older patients who are most likely to benefit from aural rehabilitation (AR) programs, and therefore, more eager to attend AR classes. Future studies on AR and auditory training should focus upon this important population.
