Editorial on Maharani et al.'s “Hearing Impairment, Loneliness, Social Isolation and Cognitive Function: Longitudinal Analysis Using English Longitudinal Study on Ageing”

Nearly a decade of published research has made geriatric psychiatrists aware that age-related hearing loss, which is epidemic and largely untreated among older adults, is associated with significant adverse neuropsychiatric and other health consequences.1 Analyses by Frank Lin et al. at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have shown convincingly that as the severity of hearing loss progresses from mild to severe, the risk for incident dementia compared to those with normal hearing rises nearly fivefold.

Source: The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry - August 13, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Bret R. Rutherford Tags: Invited Perspective Source Type: research