CIICA LIVE: CI IN OLDER PEOPLE: WHAT DO WE KNOW?
THURSDAY 26TH JUNE: 20:00 UK; 21:00 CEST; 12:00 PDT; 05:00 AEST (next day); 07:00 NZ (next day)
It’s never too late for better hearing! says Joey Carlson, Canada
Older adults are the biggest growing group receiving CI and this CIICA LIVE event will bring together presentations from those involved in delivering CI services, those delivering services for older people and those who will share their lived experiences. With an increasing ageing population, the demand for such services is likely to grow.
What is necessary to ensure lifelong services for this group? Are their challenges managing the technology?
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Prof Cathy Birman, Sydney, will share her experiences of this group as a surgeon and is delighted to be chairing the session. Cathy works with several cochlear implant programs in Sydney including NextSense and The Shepherd Centre. She says that it has been an honour and privilege to have performed over 2000 cochlear implants for people with significant hearing loss, aged from 3 months to 95 years.
Cathy has been fascinated to see the growth in older adults coming forward for CI and she is delighted to see this focus.
Roxana Badiei, Policy and Advocacy Specialist, International Federation on Ageing, will be delivering her presentation on “Hearing Health and the Decade of Healthy Ageing”. She feels passionately that the impact and management of hearing loss should be addressed when thinking about healthy ageing.
Find their website here https://ifa.ngo/
With Caroline Selvaratham, Audiologist and Adult Program Lead at Hearing House, NZ
Caroline has worked as an audiologist for almost 30 years with 25 of these years working in Cochlear Implants. She made the decision to focus on adult clients 15 years ago because in NZ this was the population that were continuing to be marginalised with regards to cochlear implant funding and care. Caroline is currently working as a clinical audiologist and the team lead for the adult cochlear implant program at The Hearing House (Auckland, NZ). She is passionate about working with older people and seeing them maintain independence and autonomy through the ageing process.
Rosemary Atkins, from the UK, who received her implant 17 years after meningitis, tells us about the changes in her life, becoming deaf, and then her CI… and also the challenges of the technology!
Joey Carlson, A new CI user at 77, tells us It’s never too late for better hearing!
Joey recently had a successful cochlear implantation and activation. She is excited to “get your life back” and be able to hear so well quite quickly. Joey was a School Teacher prior to retiring due to her hearing loss and joins us from Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Teddy McRackan, University of S Carolina, has also contributed previously to CIICA events about their developments in measuring Quality of Life in adults with CI. At this CIICA LIVE event he will think particularly about older adults and involving them in their own assessments.
PROGRAMME AVAILABLE HERE: https://ciicanet.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/CIICA-LIVE-June-2025-CI-In-Older-People-Programme.pdf
REGISTER HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/WGcC2NwRR3yIlWEBcMPkEg
