Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Dr. Frank Lin of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health about the link between hearing loss and dementia, and how over-the-counter hearing aids may help.
Over-the-counter hearing aids - no prescription necessary - could be at a store near you this fall. That's because the Food and Drug Administration decided last week to create a category of OTC devices for adults with mild to moderate hearing loss. It's expected to drive down the cost - good news for millions of Americans who need the devices but can't afford them. And it's not just the ability to hear that's important. Dr.
LIN: Forty-seven hundred dollars - to put that in perspective - for the average American, that could be your third-largest material purchase in life after a house and a car. But I'll say, in the same breath, though, it's not only cost - issues of access, the only way to get a hearing aid per se now is to make multiple trips to see an audiologist or an ENT like me and, you know, multiple trips thereafter to get fit and adjusted.
RASCOE: Do we have any sense of why that might be the case? Because some people may be listening and be like, well, what does hearing have to do with dementia? RASCOE: Will the over-the counter devices - will they be good enough to actually address Americans', like, hearing loss issues?
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