Guest article by EarQ Today, 48 million Americans report some degree of hearing loss. Meanwhile, someone in the United States develops Alzheimer’s disease, the most common type of dementia, every 67 seconds. Now, new research is beginning to show that the two conditions have more in common than you may think. When it comes to things like language processing, if you don’t use it, you lose it. This means that people with untreated hearing loss can slowly lose some of their ability to understand and process speech. This could be an explanation for why hearing loss has been strongly […]
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