🙂 We've heard a lot of excuses for not getting hearing aids, but 'fiddling" is a new one! Well, not really. There are a lot of old jokes about absent minded elderly professors who 'fiddle' with hearing aids. Not exactly funny but typical.

Far too often hearing loss is associated with aging and senility. Also with lack of intelligence. Many people are indoctrinated with that association, and it prevents people from getting the hearing help that will keep them in the hearing mainstream. When we can't hear well in conversational situations we can easily misunderstand. Sometimes our responses to that misunderstanding give people the false message that we are senile.

Recent studies from Johns Hopkins and Stanford University relate earlier cognitive decline in older people to untreated hearing loss. Studies also show that people who withdraw socially for whatever reason, often experienced depression due to isolation.

Do you know people who have stopped participating socially?