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Santiago Urquijo/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Regular use of hearing aids is associated with decreased death rates in U.S. adults with hearing loss, a new study out of USC found. The findings highlight the importance of encouraging people to use hearing aids and of ensuring everyone who needs hearing aids can get them, according to the studys authors. "Hearing is so important for just maintaining health across our life course," said Dr. Frank Lin, director of the Cochlear Center for Heari...

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In the U.S., millions of adults have hearing loss. Will consumer tech help sway them toward hearing aids?

Monique Koerner is the Family and Community Wellness Agent with K-State Research and Exten

written by: Monique Koerner - Family and Community Wellness Agent with K-State Research an

As few as 15 percent of people who would benefit from hearing aids use them

This analysis of Medicare beneficiaries over age 71 suggests the importance of discrete severity measures of hearing loss in older adults, as opposed to binary hearing loss terminology.

Older adults at greater risk for dementia may be able to protect themselves against cognitive decline by using hearing aids, new research shows.

A promising new study builds evidence for how preserving hearing may also preserve cognition for those at higher risk of losing it.