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List the factors that can affect life expectancy of the elderly patient.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Define presbycusis.
 
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Answer to Question 1

social, economic, environmental, physical and genetic factors

Answer to Question 2

a normal condition of decreased hearing that often occurs as the patient ages



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