Hearing Aids Reduce Dementia Risk


Well this sure explains a lot. I’ll be sending out private messages with a link to this article to some of you I feel strongly are either deaf or unable to think clearly anymore or both. 🤣

You are welcome.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/18/health/dementia-hearing-loss-study-wellness/index.html

erik_squires

@o_holter - in my experience, the best hearing aids for music are also the best ones for everything else, which tend to be towards the top of the line of various hearing aid manufacturers. But it's wise to have a talk with your audiologist about it.

A friend made a rather in depth study of hearing aids for his personal use and used first the top end Siemens and then upgraded to Widex.  Perhaps that is helpful. These are very top end products, rather expensive.

It’s easy to believe, as the isolation induced by deafness reduces the feedback that stimulates our brains in normal interactions.  This isn’t the first study to suggest this.

  The great thing is that there are so many over the counter hearing aids now, some very cheaply priced, that many people who could not afford the regular ones can now benefit