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5 ways hearing loss may contribute to increased risk for cognitive decline and dementia1. It’s harder to understand speech.An individual with untreated hearing loss has to spend a lot more mental effort trying to hear and understand. This increased “cognitive load” means the brain spends more resources trying to compensate for the hearing loss at the expense of other processes, such as memory and thinking.2. Vital portions of your brain shrink.With hearing loss, the part of the brain responsible for hearing atrophies. These same areas also play roles in memory and sensory integration, and have been shown to be involved...

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7 Important Lessons You Need to Know About Hearing Aids and Hearing Loss1. Hearing loss can be a symptom of other health problemsHearing loss is the third most common physical ailment behind arthritis and disease heart disease.Hearing Loss Association of America "For many of us hearing loss is something that just happens as we age. So we take it for granted that its just a normal part of aging and it's got to be relatively inconsequential," said Dr. Frank Lin.Lin said there are additional health consequences to hearing loss including an increased risk of cognitive ailments like dementia, or other...

How to Clean Your EarsUnder ideal circumstances, the ear canals should never have to be cleaned. ...the Ears are Actually Self Cleaning. If you are prone to repeated wax build-up or use hearing aids, consider seeing your doctor every 6 to 12 months for a checkup and routine preventive cleaning.American Academy of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgeryhttp://www.entnet.org/?q=node/1254

The next generation of hearing aids that unscramble multiple voices just like the human brain could be on its way.Artificial intelligence researchers have long struggled to solve 'the cocktail party problem' of picking apart singular voices in a cacophony of speakers.But now researchers in the US have built a prototype that can tell the difference between three different voices speaking simultaneously with 97 per cent accuracy. The device can work out which direction a voice is coming from, thereby separating multiple voices. Specially built metamaterials with a hexagonal structure are used to subtly alter sound waves entering the device The...

VA is testing new hearing aids via a Bluetooth connection without Veterans leaving their home The Department of Veterans Affairs is running several new medical technology pilots, including systems that could let patients receive healthcare without leaving their homes or neighborhoods, VA Deputy Secretary Sloan Gibson told an audience in Washington on Friday. With the rapid development of virtual care, or telemedicine, “what we’ve seen is a transformation from primarily an inpatient model to primarily an outpatient model," Gibson said during a conference hosted by tech association AFCEA. For instance, the VA's Center for Innovation is developing an app that...

Medicare and Hearing AidsDo your family members say you're hard of hearing, even if you don't notice it? It may be time to get your hearing checked.Hearing loss can have many causes -- an inherited condition, illness, injury. If you're suffering from hearing loss and need a hearing aid, there are certain situations where you may be eligible for coverage under Medicare.Hearing aids and Original Medicare, Part A and Part BIn general, Original Medicare and most Medicare Supplement (or Medigap) Plans don't cover hearing aids, routine hearing exams, or fittings for hearing aids. This means that without other insurance, you...

Hearing Aids and Tinnitus - Tinnitus and Hearing Loss - Tinnitus and the effectiveness of hearing aids - Do they help?I am not going to talk about any supplement cures for tinnitus on this video. This is video is about the 2 Types Hearing Aids that are designed to help manage tinnitus symptoms.The first type of hearing aids that can help manage tinnitus do it amplifying external sounds, Masking or Relaxing the ringing. For example....Widex has a hearing aid that creates soothing musical sounds, designed to have a random rhythm so it is more ignorable or listened to “in the...

Hearing Aid Denial Guest Post by Dave Johnson "Pardon?" That was my father's 'shorthand' for"Pardon me, missed that; would you please say thatagain?And as a high-school kid, I would sit thereand think, "just admit that you have a bad hearingproblem, go out and get hearing aids, and rejoin thehuman race!". It was ten more years before Dad gothis first set of hearing aids. I really never couldfigure out his reluctance to admit that he had ahearing problem. . . . Until I turned sixty-nine anddiscovered myself going through the same process.We live in a culture where graying hair, baldness,wrinkles, or...

By Julie Sabino julie.s@hngn.comThe findings of the study provided insight into why treatments such as brain stimulations and neurofeedback are not enough to fully cure the condition...........methods that can suppress the ringing sound such as white noise or hearing aids. ... About 90 percent of the cases occur with hearing loss.Read more here: http://www.hngn.com/articles/87021/20150427/tinnitus-ringing-ears-multiple-areas-brain.htm

Listen to this: The world of earbuds is about to be transformed by startups whose products let you customize what you hear.Instead of earbuds, which typically deliver music and voice sounds through a wire, and hearing aids, which boost certain frequencies (lost to the elderly who listened to loud music through earbuds in their misspent youths), the new hearables -- wearable devices that live in your ears -- enable the customization of environmental sound. You can cherry-pick which noises you want to hear better, and which you want silenced.Read More from Mike Elgan here:http://www.computerworld.com/article/2971267/wearables/new-earbuds-give-you-super-hearing.html