How would you like a more active social life? What about a better, more productive work environment? You can achieve all that is you just take care of your ears on a regular basis. Why? Scientists say seniors will experience a variety of youthful benefits, such as faring better at work and keeping dementia from setting in, when they protect their hearing. While you are likely aware that maintaining an ideal level of physical fitness during your senior years is important to keeping up with your health. As such, you can reduce the chance of anything from stroke and diabetes to cancer and other problems.
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Say no to dementia. Dementia happens to many people in their later senior years, but if you fend off hearing loss, you can lower your risk for this. Over time, our brains shrink, which represents an increased risk of dementia as it relates to hearing loss.
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Fewer hospitalizations. Hearing loss can boost your risk of going to the hospital due to falls and other events, can actually lead to inactivity, which in turn leads to depression.
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Worry less about falling. Protect the equilibrium in your ears through good hearing health. Individuals who can’t hear well don’t have as much of a stable awareness of their surroundings, leading to more frequent trips and falls. Johns Hopkins Medicine says people with a 25-decibel hearing loss are three times more likely to fall than others with no hearing problems.
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Perform better on the job to stay relevant to your profession. When your hearing is lackluster, you’ll have difficulty listening to important instructions or safety precautions. It will also be harder to participate productively in coworker discussions or meetings, affecting both your job performance or edge you out of your profession
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Keep a safe awareness of your environment. With good hearing, you can hear warnings, alarms and sirens to avoid potential disaster.
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Keep hearing loss at bay with healthy flow of blood to the ears. Every time you engage in exercise, you send excellent oxygen-rich blood flow to the ears, which protects the ear canal and makes it less likely you’ll experience additional hearing loss.
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Keep up good, productive conversations with others. From the deli guy to your boss, you need to hear well in order to be a productive member of society. Lead a successful life by staving off hearing impairment through good hearing health.
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Have more friends and a more active sex life. Hearing impaired seniors who use hearing aids have a better social life and sex life with improved mental health and a sense of independence.
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Hear teachers better. If you’re back in school, it’s imperative you can hear well to fully understand your assignments. You won’t learn as well if you constantly have to sit up front and ask the teacher to repeat herself.
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Shore up your confidence and self esteem. People with difficulties in hearing can have a lack of self confidence or self-esteem because they can’t interact easily with others in social situations like parties. As such, they may avoid going to parties, meetings.