An 'eagerly awaited' clinical trial has delivered good news: hearing aids may slow the rate of cognitive decline by nearly 50 percent in some older adults.
that people who had trouble hearing in noisy environments were at greater risk of developing dementia, which might manifest as confusion or memory loss.
Randomized into two roughly equal groups, half the participants were fitted with hearing aids; the others received an evidence-based education program on healthy aging. "These results provide compelling evidence that treating hearing loss is a powerful tool to protect cognitive function in later life, and possibly, over the long term, delay a dementia diagnosis,""But any cognitive benefits of treating age-related hearing loss are likely to vary depending on an individual's risk of cognitive decline."
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