If your hearing begins to decline, your risk of falling may rise.
Research shows older adults with mild hearing loss are at a greater risk — more than double — of falling. Though it’s not exactly clear how hearing loss increases the risk, it’s known that falls are the top cause of death from injury among people 65 and older.
Now, new evidence shows that restoring hearing through the use of hearing aids may be protective, especially when people wear them consistently. That’s according to a study published this summer in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
“We found, quite significantly, that individuals that wore hearing aids compared to those that didn’t, did show a significantly lower prevalence,” explains Laura Campos, an audiologist and researcher at UCHealth in Colorado and the study’s lead author. “They reported…
