Over-the-counter hearing aids are coming to drugstores next year. If you have mild or moderate hearing loss, specialists say start getting ready now. Columnist juliejargon explains how.
A hearing-aid disruption is under way, with inexpensive hearing aids heading to drugstores and other retailers sometime next year. But if you’re experiencing hearing loss, doctors and hearing experts say it isn’t wise to just wait for them to arrive.
The FDA’s aim is to make hearing help more accessible to the 37.5 million American adults with hearing loss. Due to the high cost of hearing aids and the social stigma of wearing them, only about a fifth of the people who could benefit from a hearing aid use one, according to the agency. Janice Lintz, right, with her daughter, Arielle, became an advocate for hearing accessibility after Arielle was diagnosed with hearing loss as a child.Doctors say social isolation can result in a faster rate of brain atrophy. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University and the National Institute on Agingfor 12 years and found that people with mild hearing loss doubled their risk of developing dementia, while those with moderate hearing loss tripled their risk.
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