Hearing and Your Cognitive Health

Hearing and Your Cognitive Health

Leanne E. Polhill, LHAS, BC-HIS, BACognitive Health, Dementia & Alzheimer's Disease, Hearing Health, Hearing Loss, Hearing Loss Related Disease, Mental Health, Overall Health, Research

This September is World Alzheimer’s Month, which helps connect people to resources and awareness around Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. More and more, research is finding that our cognitive health is connected to our hearing health and untreated hearing loss can exacerbate cognitive decline. Untreated hearing loss make a person 1.3 more times as likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease than a …

Identifying the Signs of Hearing Loss

Identifying the Signs of Hearing Loss

Leanne E. Polhill, LHAS, BC-HIS, BAHearing Health, Hearing Loss, Signs & Symptoms, Tips & Tricks

Though some have severe and undeniable hearing loss, including those who are born with hearing impairment or deafness, others experience a slow decline in hearing ability over the course of their lives. Though they may have had clear hearing in the mid-life years of their thirties, forties, and fifties, this ability may have waned in the later years of the …