Losing your hearing is a difficult and frustrating experience for anyone
to go through. Time progresses and sounds become harder to pick up,
voices become harder to hear, and many people face inevitable stress
trying to understand the next steps and what life to come looks like.
But what many people don’t consider beyond the surface is the effect
that untreated hearing loss will have on their mental health. At Little
Rock Audiology, we are advocates for taking care of hearing along with
recognizing and acknowledging when symptoms are occurring in order to
take care of your mental health. Conditions and feelings that stem from
hearing loss include the following.
Depression
Depression is a common result of hearing loss. So much so that the
National Council of Aging has found that those with hearing loss are 50
percent more likely to experience depression. A study found seniors
having untreated hearing loss often reporting feelings of being
depressed for periods of two weeks or longer. For the longest time it
was believed that adults approaching their later years of life that
hearing loss is just a harmless reality, but this clearly debunks this
myth. Women with hearing loss have also been known to experience higher
rates of depression than their male counterparts.
Cognitive Decline
Recent hearing loss studies have connected cognitive decline with
untreated hearing loss. We don’t know if cognitive decline or even
dementia are caused by hearing loss, but we do know there is a link
established that needs to be looked further into. Research leads to the
idea that a higher risk of dementia and cognitive decline among those
with untreated hearing loss is caused by a number of factors. One
University of Colorado found that a phenomenon called "Brain
Reorganization" is common with hearing loss, where as the part of your
brain devoted to hearing shrinks as the ability is lost and other parts
of the brain step in to fill the vacated roles.
Social Isolation
Loneliness and isolation is a serious risk for seniors with hearing
loss. Many become frustrated in their struggle to hear and understand,
more so in noisy environments than others. They’ll avoid getting out and
living life the way they once enjoyed. This very much goes hand-in-hand
with the idea of the risk of cognitive decline and dementia from
untreated hearing loss, as your brain is like a muscle and the loss of
one sense decreases the stimulation it once had.
At Little Rock
Audiology, we are passionate about helping people prevent hearing loss
and also getting people back to a sense of normalcy with hearing aid and
counseling solutions. Call today to learn more!
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