At Beneficial Hearing Aid Center, we’re committed to providing our patients with the best quality of care, as well as information about living a life with healthy hearing. Below, we review a study that correlated hearing aid use with a slower rate of cognitive decline.
The study was conducted by the University of Maryland Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences and published in the journals Clinical Neurophysiologyand Neuropsychologia.
For the study, researchers monitored a group of first-time hearing aid users who had mild to moderate hearing loss over a six-month period. Participants underwent a variety of behavioral and cognitive tests that assessed hearing, working memory, attention and processing speed, as well as electrical activity in the auditory cortex and midbrain that occurred in response to speech sounds.
After wearing hearing aids for six months, participants exhibited improvement in working memory, neural speech processing and ease of listening.
“In effect, hearing aids can actually help reverse several of the major problems with communication that are common as we get older,” explained lead researcher Samira Anderson, Ph.D.
Staying on top of your hearing health is one of the most vital ways to protect your quality of life. With new updates in hearing technology, well-fit modern hearing aids may help improve memory loss while boosting your social well-being in the process.
Now’s a great time to care for this crucial part of your health, especially if you have trouble hearing. Common signs of hearing loss include turning up the volume on the TV louder than is comfortable for others, thinking people are constantly mumbling and having trouble hearing over background noise.
Beneficial Hearing Aid Center has an expert team to help you stay proactive and develop a personalized hearing strategy. Call (352) 629-4418 today to learn more.