Publications by authors named "Becky Brott Powers"
Objective: We aimed to determine whether hearing impairment (HI) in older adults is associated with the development of frailty and falls.
Method: Longitudinal analysis of observational data from the Health, Aging and Body Composition study of 2,000 participants aged 70 to 79 was conducted. Hearing was defined by the pure-tone-average of hearing thresholds at 0.