Hearing Aids Can Mean Fewer Hospital Visits
Among people with serious hearing loss, those who use hearing aids are less likely to go to the hospital or emergency department, and when they do go, their stays are on average a half day shorter.
The new study from the University of Michigan, which was published online in JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery, also found that hearing-aid users are more likely to visit their doctors for nonemergency appointments.
because people who use hearing aids can hear better, they can communicate more effectively with their physicians and “take care of themselves better.” The respondents who used hearing aids, in fact, had a lower rate of diabetes and hypertension.
hearing problems can lead to isolation, which has been associated with poorer health, including higher rates of dementia,
