Several studies have proven that hearing loss can have an influence on your brain. (Just have a look at some of our past blog posts.) Luckily, it’s also been verified that you can restore some of that cognitive capacity through hearing aids.

We’re not stating that you will become smarter just by using hearing aids. But there’s some compelling research that suggests cognitive ability can be increased by using hearing aids lowering your risk for anxiety, depression, and dementia.

You Carry Out a Lot of Hearing With Your Brain

To understand the link between your ears and cognition, it’s important to realize that a substantial percentage of your hearing actually happens in your brain. It’s the brain’s task to convert sound vibrations into recognizable sound information. So as your hearing diminishes, the parts of your brain that interpret those sounds suddenly have much less to do.

When combined with other factors (such as social isolation), the alterations in your brain (and hearing) can result in the onset of certain mental health problems. Anxiety, depression, and dementia are much more noticeable in individuals who have neglected hearing loss.

When you wear hearing aids, you’re effectively “treating” your hearing loss. That means:

• Social isolation will be less likely. You will be more likely to engage with others if you can hear and understand interactions.
• The regions of your brain responsible for hearing will get regular workouts; the more your brain works, the healthier your brain stays.
• Because you’ll be capable of coupling your hearing aids with routine monitoring and other treatment methods, you can help keep your hearing from getting increasingly worse.

Staying Attentive

Hearing aids stimulate your brain and your social life and can lessen depression, anxiety, and dementia.

• The health of your inner ear: Inner ear damage is not caused by hearing loss alone. But there is frequently a common cause for both hearing loss and inner ear damage. So treating the one can help you treat the other, and in certain cases, a hearing aid is a component of that treatment regimen.
• Cutting edge technology: Hearing aids have begun containing novel technology that is able to notify emergency contacts (or emergency services) when a person using the hearing aids has a fall. This can minimize long term complications and injuries even though it won’t stop the fall itself.
• Creating stronger awareness: Sometimes, you fall because you’re not aware of your surroundings. Your situational awareness can be significantly hampered by hearing conditions. Not only can it be difficult to hear sounds, but it can also be challenging to ascertain what direction sounds are originating from. A fall or other accident can be the result.

Actually, you have a higher chance of avoiding a fall when you’re using hearing aids. A hearing aid keeps you more alert, more perceptive, and more connected, maximizing cognitive attributes and physical health in the process.

Start Using Your Hearing Aid

We haven’t even mentioned the fact that a hearing aid will also improve your hearing. So it seems like when you factor in all of the positive aspects linked to wearing hearing aids, it’s a no brainer. (not something you need to overthink).

The problem is that many people don’t know they have hearing loss. It can be challenging to recognize hearing loss when it happens slowly over time. That’s the reason why getting a normal hearing assessment is necessary. A wide variety of other health issues can be made worse by loss of hearing.

The correct hearing aid can, in part, slow the beginning of despair and dementia, while lessening the incidents of some physical incidents. That’s a striking combination of benefits that hearing aids provide, and they also help you hear.