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       Hearing loss and dementia risk
       By: agate Date: April 22, 2023, 7:52 pm
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       I've probably posted about this before but it's worth mentioning
       it again. As someone who's been wearing hearing aids for years,
       I think I realize how vulnerable hearing-impaired people are to
       dementia--or to being mistaken for demented.
       It goes like this if your hearing is impaired: You hear someone
       say something. You think you've heard it right. After all, for
       most of your life you've heard things right. Of course you heard
       this right even if you have a few nagging doubts about some
       fuzziness in the sound. So you assume you've heard what you
       think you've heard.
       And you reply--to what you think you've heard. Then you're
       surprised when the conversation ends abruptly or if you get an
       odd look from the person you were talking to.
       If this happens often enough and you give it some thought, and
       especially if you know other people who are having the same
       problem, you gradually realize that your replies often have
       nothing to do with what the person said to you. So you end up
       looking as if you're not right in the head.
       If this keeps up long enough, it probably leads to a situation
       where you genuinely are demented. The world no longer makes
       sense to you. What people are saying can't be figured out. You
       give up. You stay apart from people so you won't have to
       interact with anyone. Then the dangers of isolation catch up
       with you....
       From Medical News Today (April 20, 2023)--"Treating hearing loss
       via hearing aids may lower dementia risk":
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