[ConservativeMind]

It is really important to prevent such problems and to do whatever we can do to mitigate issues to curb possible mental damage. It’s never too late to “improve.”

[ConservativeMind]

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[Red Badger]

What?...................

[BiglyCommentary]

So is the hearing “impairment” mentioned here due to lower volume, or not being able to process sounds at the same volume?

[pepsi_junkie]

My hearing hasn't been good for a while so I got them checked. Doc said I had typical loss for people in their 50s, mostly effecting high frequencies. He said I'd have no problem hearing low sounds like men talking but I might have issues hearing my wife speak to me.

I said "Okay. Are there any downsides?"

[dfwgator]

Eh?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“cognitive deterioration due to decreased auditory and visual input, social disengagement and loneliness due to problems communicating, and age-related degeneration of the central nervous system.”

I’ve witnessed this twice in my family. Fortunately, both people (grandma who went blind and uncle who went blind and nearly deaf) were in their early and mid 90s before this set in. My mom got dementia in her early 80s.

It’s a lousy way to go, locked up in your thoughts every day with no social interaction.

We learned yesterday that a 71 year old friend just learned this week she has Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. She started feeling a bit unwell a few weeks ago and now this death-sentence diagnosis.

I’m not sure which is worse...slow cognitive decline due to vision and hearing loss or the sudden and painful death of pancreatic cancer. It’s so much better to go peacefully in your sleep.

All of our smoke alarms went off this morning at 4:45 am. I thought that instantaneous shock and fright was going to kill me, but I pulled through.

[lee martell]

That headline is like facing a panel of closed, locked and blocked doors. I think the essence of it is saying, if you are losing your hearing and/ your sight as you age, then that is also to be seen as a sign of cognitive impairment and brain dysfunction. Really? I’m thinking the lost of sharp eye sight and vision happens to almost all people as they age.
Many of these same people exhibit no apparent loss of cognitive skills. I never thought to relate the two on a general basis.

[Vermont Lt]

I think there might be a correlation without causality.

I don’t think hearing or vision loss leads to dementia. Dementia is a physical process within the brain. Its different than depression, cognitive decline, or lack of social interaction.

I DO think a lack of stimulation and social interaction will lead to isolation and a tendency to just “giving up”; which is often confused with a cognitive decline.

[N. Theknow]

While I am seriously deaf and only partially helped with hearing aids, I am very fortunate to have received “second sight” which is a trait in my family.

It happens when far sightedness catches up to near sightedness. Still need reading glasses but no longer need glasses to see far off. Wearing glasses since 14 years old.

[Shady]

It’s true, Even with Lasik it is harder and harder to think. I am severely hearing disabled.

[Faith65]

Thanks.
BKMK

[Grampa Dave]

I’m just recycling this very important post.
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My wife and I had hearing tests, and we basically flunked the tests.

We are now fitted with expensive and excellent hearing aids.

Now, we are starting to appreciate them in our lives together, and all of the current data re hearing loss and negative cognitive impact/dementia.