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Hearing Aids Mitigate Cognitive Decline in Older People

Have you ever wondered if there’s a link between hearing loss and cognitive decline? Those with hearing loss often suffer more rapid cognitive decline, and struggle to focus on tasks or remember details. Some small cognitive declines are a normal…

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How Treating Hearing Loss Improves Your Relationships

All relationships require communication to flourish, and your strongest relationships are the ones with the best communication. Can you imagine maintaining these close connections if you aren’t able to communicate effectively? Living with untreated hearing loss robs you of your…

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A Healthy Diet Can Lower the Risk of Hearing Loss

When it comes to protecting your hearing, the first thing that comes to mind is ear plugs or earmuffs designed to protect your ears from dangerously loud noise. Protecting your ears from noise induced hearing loss is an important part…

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The Benefits of Being Social for Older Americans

Are you over the age over 65? Older Americans often struggle to stay social, whether from changes in living arrangements, losing a spouse, or due to hearing loss. Whatever the cause of their social isolation, finding ways to be social…

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New Year’s Resolution: Get Your Hearing Tested

Do you struggle to follow conversations in places with a lot of background noise? Have you noticed changes in your hearing health, or feel like you’re missing out on many of the sounds around you? If you have hearing loss,…

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Weather Preparedness Tips for People with Hearing Loss

A natural disaster could strike at any time and it is important to be prepared for any emergency that could arise. This is even more relevant for people with hearing loss. The need to plan, practice, and store away information…

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Hearing Aids Support Your Active Lifestyle

If you have been diagnosed with hearing loss but are afraid of what that may mean for your active lifestyle, there are new advances in hearing aid technology that could be right for you. Along with Bluetooth wireless technology, some…

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Millennials and Hearing Loss

A common misconception is that hearing loss is only a condition that old people suffer from. However, hearing healthcare professionals are seeing an unsettling pattern of hearing loss affecting young people ages 20 to 69. True, advanced age is factor…

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September is World Alzheimer’s Month

Every September marks the international effort World Alzheimer’s Month. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common type of dementia that people can have, and the disease affects millions of people all across the world. The disease most frequently affects older people:…

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Why are People Ashamed of Hearing Loss?

Think back to the last time you had a conversation with someone who has untreated hearing loss. When you tried to communicate, did you encounter any problems? Some people have found a way to make do with the limitations on…

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