{"id":253762,"date":"2025-10-27T02:34:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T02:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/253762\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T02:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T02:34:06","slug":"study-reveals-32-of-dementia-cases-in-seniors-linked-to-untreated-hearing-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/253762\/","title":{"rendered":"Study reveals 32% of dementia cases in seniors linked to untreated hearing loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

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October is National Protect Your Hearing Month, and a recent study is linking untreated hearing loss with dementia.<\/p>\n

An 8-year study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)<\/a> found that 32% of dementia cases in adults aged 66 to 90 years could be linked to untreated audiometric hearing loss.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat this study shows is hearing is about brain health,\u201d Hearing instrument specialist Dennis Tembreull said.<\/p>\n

The study followed nearly 3,000 patients throughout those 8 years and found that dementia cases linked to untreated hearing loss were comparable between mild and moderate or greater hearing loss.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt gives us definitive proof for patients that we can show them there is a risk, there is a reason to treat your hearing loss,\u201d Tembreull said.<\/p>\n

Only about 20% of patients treat their hearing loss, due to factors like cost, or sometimes not even realizing it is there, Tembreull said. <\/p>\n

\u201cHearing loss is not often seen as the disability it is, but it takes us away from our relationships and from connecting us to the world,\u201d according to Tembreull.<\/p>\n

Tembreull said the best practice is to start having screenings after the age of 50. He said hearing assessments only take 10 or 15 minutes; the assessment is a series of tones across different frequencies to see where your hearing threshold is.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven with a mild hearing loss, there is a risk for cognitive impairment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"October is National Protect Your Hearing Month, and a recent study is linking untreated hearing loss with dementia.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[4994,1112,1103,97,13349,137859,137860,71118,1120],"class_list":["post-253762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-brain-health","tag-cognitive-impairment","tag-dementia","tag-health","tag-hearing-loss","tag-hearing-screening","tag-hearing-treatment","tag-jama-study","tag-seniors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}