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Older adults in four countries want hearing care from a clinic
Surveyed before over-the-counter hearing aids existed, more than 9,000 people over 60 picked doctors and audiologists over shops, ads and mail order.
Hearing impairment tracked with dementia in a rural South African cohort
Among 567 older adults in Mpumalanga, 70% of those with dementia had impaired hearing against 36% of those with normal cognition, and the risk…
A Maine trial pits recorder lessons against music listening for aging brains
University of Maine researchers will randomize 48 older adults, half with mild cognitive impairment, to 12 weeks of learning the soprano recorder or guided…
Seniors who kept playing an instrument held onto working memory
Kyoto University followed adults who started lessons at an average age of 73; four years on, those who quit lost verbal working memory and…
Rice wins $3.9M to test whether composing music protects aging brains
A five-year National Institute on Aging trial will put 210 adults over 65 with mild cognitive impairment through a six-week composition course, tracked with…