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Hearing loss can lead to deadly falls, but hearing aids may cut the risk (www.npr.org)
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[-] Rusticus@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Hearing loss likely accompanies vestibular dysfunction. Not hard to explain imbalance.

[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Then why would hearing aids fix it? I didn’t think vestibular dysfunction worked like that

[-] Rusticus@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Hearing aids won’t fix vestibular dysfunction but hearing has to help with having an additional sense. There is also a link between hearing loss and cognitive decline and hearing aids may help with that as well.

https://drexel.edu/news/archive/2023/January/Fall-Rate-Nearly-50-Percent-Among-Older-Americans-with-Dementia#:~:text=Older%20adults%20living%20with%20dementia,hospitalization%20and%20nursing%20home%20admission.

[-] FoundTheVegan@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

I cast feather fall every morning apparently.

[-] detalferous@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Lemmy science: this is correlation, not causation.

And that's important, because the incidence of death in individuals (including scientists!) who don't understand the difference is 100%

[-] Coreidan@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

Same with glasses

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