[Management of hearing impairment in adults]. / Prise en charge du handicap auditif de l'adulte.

Hearing impairment, mainly the deafness with possible distortions, assorted with tinnitus concerns about 4 million of the French population. It can be of variable severity. Deafness is an invisible disability until we must answer a question. The permanent improvement of the computer and microelectronics sciences benefit to the prosthetic devices: cochlear implants compensate for complete hearing loss, hearing aids are hidden by being miniaturized, being partially or totally implantable. The management of disability is not limited to this material part: human assistance and assistive devices are part of the armory. Rest to continue and to increase the financial support. This claim is obviously not specific to disability hearing although the hearing aid is only refunded 138 Euro per device for a unit cost from 1300 Euro to 2500 Euro with an observed lifetime of 4 or 5 years.

[Public assistance for the management of hearing loss]. / Aides administratives à la prise en charge de la surdité.

Financial management of adult deafness is still limited nowadays: the administrative assistance for purchasing hearing assistive devices, if not nonexistent, is often complex, difficult to implement and inconsistent. Therefore, not only patients but also recommending practitioners are often unaware of its existence. This article aims at providing below a non-exhaustive summary table, as simple as possible.