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RE: Hearing Loss Appears to be a Significant Risk Factor For Dementia
The biggest thing that promotes dementia is a very controversial one. It's when the elderly stop working/solving problems, the low-stress environment accompanied by the lack of social interaction will degrade cognitive ability. Hearing loss can even worsen the situation. So please get your elderly doing stuff, they are very able to, want to do things and they don't want to chill out all the time.
Absolutely - in fact stopping working doesn't just promote dementia it also seems to lead to increased mortality in general. I suspect social isolation and depression are involved.