Hearing Loss and Older Adults: Supporting Quality of Life, Function, and Well-Being
A quarter of older adults between 65 and 74 years, and half of adults over the age of 75 have hearing loss (HL; National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders [NIDCD] 2021). Untreated HL can increase the risk for depression, falls, dementia, and rehospitalization (Abrams, 2017; Chang et al., 2018), and it is associated with
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