Photo credit: Andrea Piacquadio by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition An article in JAMA Open Network from a research group at Johns Hopkins University reports that hearing aid use among the elderly has increased, but remains low. The data were collected as...
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Dementia isn’t inevitable. Neither is hearing loss
Photo credit: Min An by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition A recent report on the Medscape website is headlined: "Almost 50% of Global Dementia Cases May Be Preventable." Reporter Megan Brooks ably summarizes the latest report from the U.K.’s Lancet...
Hearing aids might slow cognitive decline, research shows
Photo credit: Diva Plavalaguna by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition According to a report in The Hearing Review, hearing aids slow cognitive decline in adults with mild cognitive impairment. The report is based on a presentation by UCLA researchers at the...
Dementia risk linked to speech-in-noise difficulty
Photo credit: cottonbro studio by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Science Alert website recently reported on research published in 2021 the shows a correlation between speech-in-noise difficulty and risk for developing dementia. Speech-in-noise...
Hearing aids may cut dementia risk in half
Photo credit: MART PRODUCTION by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition According to a recent CNN article that comments on a new paper in The Lancet, treatment of hearing loss with hearing aids may cut dementia risk in half (the article is open access but one...
Brain health in the news
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Yishane Lee at Hearing Health Foundation was kind enough to let us know about this blog post on the HHF website. In it, Lee discusses recent research about hearing loss and dementia. In reading the...
Improving older adults’ hearing helps their cognitive functioning
Photo credit: Sofia Shultz by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I have written about the relationship between hearing loss and cognitive impairment before and reported on evidence that strongly suggests that improving hearing for older people may delay or...
Hearing loss may affect the brain
Photo credit: Anna Shvets by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This interesting essay on Medpagetoday discusses something we have recently covered , the possible effect of hearing loss on developing dementia. The author is Shannon Halloway, RN, PhD, who does...
Another study ties dementia to hearing loss
Photo credit: Kindel Media by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Researcher Frank Lin, MD PhD, may have been the first to describe an association between hearing loss and dementia in older people in 2011 and he has continued his research on this topic. One of...