Hearing loss can lead to social isolation and profound cognitive effects, including accelerated age-related memory loss.

“So, then you say, "When you take the stairs less, you get less fit, cardiovascular fitness declines over time." And, you know, did the ankle actually cause the cardiovascular issue, not directly, but indirectly in the same way that if hearing is challenging, we're less likely to interact socially, which also feeds back on dementia.”

“We do know that when people have hearing loss and it's unrecognized, a lot of people have unrecognized hearing loss. Y and what people don't fully appreciate is that if you don't have access to communication, to conversation, you're not your brain is not getting those same signals. It's becoming deprived. And what we do know through many studies now is that the cognitive effects of that hearing loss actually can be quite profound. It accelerates uh age related memory loss.”

“It accelerates uh age related memory loss.”

“We do know that when people have that problem, they tend to be more socially isolated. So there's a lot of secondary things that happen.”