Tag: Dementia
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Patients reluctant to use hearing aids, unaware of link between hearing loss and dementia
SINGAPORE – Mr Doraisamy Pillay brushed off his wife’s concerns when she noticed that he had difficulty understanding her. The school counsellor, who was then 67, chose to believe he was merely inattentive, and ignored the advice of an audiologist that he would benefit from a hearing aid. It was only four years later, in…