Model shows how new staff approaches can better serve residents with hearing loss, dementia
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Kristen Fischer
Mar 12, 2024
A new report highlights a model to implement behavior-change techniques to better support long-term care residents with hearing loss and dementia.
Hearing amplifiers work well in clinics, but challenges remain: report
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Kristen Fischer
Feb 05, 2024
Personal hearing amplifiers, or PHAs — devices that help people hear better but aren’t tailored to the user as are hearing aids — work well in healthcare clinics to help individuals hear what their...
Report: Hearing loss raises risk for cognitive decline, even without other dementia risks
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Kristen Fischer
Jan 22, 2024
Hearing loss is a risk factor for cognitive decline that’s independent of other dementia risk factors, according to a new report.
Report: Hearing loss raises dementia risk, especially without hearing aids
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Kristen Fischer
Jan 05, 2024
Hearing loss is linked to an increase in dementia risk, especially in people who don’t use hearing aids, according to a study published Thursday in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery.
Also in the News for Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 04, 2024
New owners seek to convert Maine county’s last nursing home to assisted living, as Massachusetts health system swaps in hospital beds for SNF beds … Resident still missing after St. Louis nursing home’s...
Study: Hearing aid use linked to 24 percent lower risk of death
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Kristen Fischer
Jan 04, 2024
A new report links wearing hearing aids to a lower risk for dying. The study, published Wednesday in The Lancet Healthy Longevity, found that adults who regularly wore their hearing aids had a 24% lower...
Americans not sure about hearing loss effects, how to access to OTC hearing aids, survey finds
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Kristen Fischer
Oct 19, 2023
It’s been one year since hearing aids became available over-the-counter in the United States. Even though the devices are widely accessible, for the most part, it doesn’t seem like many Americans understand...
Clinical briefs for Thursday, Sept. 14
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Kristen Fischer
Sep 14, 2023
Fast-acting oral vaccines on the horizon, study says … Fewer antibiotics prescribed for conjunctivitis with standards in place … Flu shot lowered risk for related hospitalizations … 70% of Americans...
Professor advocates for clearer messaging around hearing loss, dementia link
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Kristen Fischer
Aug 25, 2023
A professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine has a message about how the healthcare community should communicate the connection between hearing loss and dementia risk: Don’t be scary.
Report: About 65% of older adults have hearing loss yet only 29% use hearing aids
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Kristen Fischer
Jul 31, 2023
New research sheds light on hearing loss among older adults. Namely, it points to how widespread hearing loss is — and how few people are wearing hearing aids. The news comes as more research shows the...