COLUMBIA: In a study of 100 seniors ages 80 to 99, Columbia University Medical Center researchers found that those wearing hearing aids performed better on standard cognition tests than those who did not. That was true even when the hearing-aid wearers had more acute hearing loss.
“Our study suggests that using a hearing aid may offer a simple, yet important, way to prevent or slow the development of dementia by keeping adults with hearing loss engaged in conversation and communication,” Dr. Anil K. Lalwani, a Columbia professor of head and neck surgery, said in a statement.