New research has shown that people who are hard of hearing have increased odds of developing dementia.The research however, does not show a direct correlation between cause and effect. There is hope that perhaps as more people use hearing aids, it can stop the tide of dementia."Dementia is devastating, and the prevalence doubles every 20 years," said Dr. Frank R. Lin, an ear surgeon at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, whose findings appear in the Archives of Neurology.
"There are some studies showing that if you can delay dementia onset by just one year, you would decrease the prevalence of dementia by more than 10 percent in 2050."
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