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Hearing loss can be an early sign of many conditions, including dementia. So proper hearing care is a vital component to a healthy life, and there are ways to help lessen the risk of losing your hearing.
The OTC and direct-to-consumer options open up avenues for those who have no other path to get hearing aids.
A new study found that older adults who start losing both vision and hearing are twice as likely to develop dementia as people with only one or neither impairment. Hearing loss can be an early sign of many conditions, including dementia. So proper hearing care is a vital component to a healthy life, and there are ways to help lessen the risk of losing your hearing.
These behaviors increase your dementia risk: not exercising your brain, not socializing, smoking, and unhealthy diet.
Spurred by decades of complaints about the high cost of hearing aids, Congress passed a law in 2017 to allow over-the-counter sales, with hopes it would boost competition and lower prices. Four years later, federal regulators have yet to issue rules to implement the law. But changes in the industry are offering consumers relief. In August 2017, President Donald Trump signed the legislation that called for the Food and Drug Administration to issue regulations by 2020 for hearing aids that could be sold in stores without a prescription or a visit to an audiologist or other hearing specialist. That hasn’tSpurred by decades of complaints about the high cost of hearing aids, Congress passed a law in 2017 to allow over-the-counter sales, with hopes it would boost competition and lower prices. Four years later, federal regulators have yet to issue rules to implement the law. But changes in the industry are...
These are dementia risks you may not know about: tooth loss, poor sleep, hearing loss, smoking, and an unhealthy lifestyle.