By: Dr. Keith Darrow, PhD, CCC-A Simply put, the brain can benefit greatly by being proactive in taking care of your hearing loss as you age. In fact, studies have shown that by treating your hearing loss, you can slow down the degenerative disease of dementia by up to 75%. And a recent article from…
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Most of us know somebody, perhaps a parent, grandparent, neighbor, or friend, who has been diagnosed with the life-altering diagnosis of dementia. Unfortunately, the 3 words, ‘you have dementia’ are spoken too often. Every 3 seconds another person is diagnosed with dementia, and rates of dementia are predicted to triple in the next 25 years.…