Longitudinal Relationship Between Hearing Aid Use and Cognitive Function in Older Americans

Asri Maharan; Piers Dawes; James Nazroo; Gindo Tampubolon; Neil Pendleton; Geir Bertelsen; Suzanne Cosh; Audrey Cougnard-Gregoire; Cecile Delcourt; Fofi Constantinidou; Catherine Helmer; M Arfan Ikram; Caroline C W Klaver; Iracema Leroi; Magda Meester-Smor; Unal Mutlu; Virginie Nael; Henrik Schirmer; Henning Tiemeier; Therese von Hanno

doi:10.1111/jgs.15363

Longitudinal Relationship Between Hearing Aid Use and Cognitive Function in Older Americans

Asri Maharan
, Piers Dawes
, James Nazroo
, Gindo Tampubolon
, Neil Pendleton
, Geir Bertelsen
, Suzanne Cosh
, Audrey Cougnard-Gregoire
, Cecile Delcourt
, Fofi Constantinidou
, Catherine Helmer
, M Arfan Ikram
, Caroline C W Klaver
, Iracema Leroi
, Magda Meester-Smor
, Unal Mutlu
, Virginie Nael
, Henrik Schirmer
, Henning Tiemeier
, Therese von Hanno

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Abstract

OBJECTIVES: To test whether hearing aid use alters cognitive trajectories in older adults.

DESIGN: US population-based longitudinal cohort study

SETTING: Data were drawn from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), which measured cognitive performance repeatedly every 2 years over 18 years (1996–2014).

PARTICIPANTS: Adults aged 50 and older who who took part in a minimum of 3 waves of the HRS and used hearing aids for the first time between Waves 4 and 11 (N52,040).

MEASUREMENTS: Cognitive outcomes were based on episodic memory scores determined according to the sum of immediate and delayed recall of 10 words.

RESULTS: Hearing aid use was positively associated with episodic memory scores (β=1.53, p<.001). Decline in episodic memory scores was slower after (β=–0.02, p<.001) than before using hearing aids (β=–0.1, p<.001). These results were robust to adjustment for multiple confounders and to attrition, as accounted for using a joint model.

CONCLUSIONS: Hearing aids may have a mitigating effect on trajectories of cognitive decline in later life. Providing hearing aids or other rehabilitative services for hearing impairment much earlier in the course of hearing impairment may stem the worldwide rise of dementia.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1130-1136
Journal	Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Volume	66
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.15363
Publication status	Published - 30 Jun 2018

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Maharan, A., Dawes, P., Nazroo, J., Tampubolon, G., Pendleton, N., Bertelsen, G., Cosh, S., Cougnard-Gregoire, A., Delcourt, C., Constantinidou, F., Helmer, C., Ikram, M. A., Klaver, C. C. W., Leroi, I., Meester-Smor, M., Mutlu, U., Nael, V., Schirmer, H., Tiemeier, H., & von Hanno, T. (2018). Longitudinal Relationship Between Hearing Aid Use and Cognitive Function in Older Americans. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 66(6), 1130-1136. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.15363

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Longitudinal Relationship Between Hearing Aid Use and Cognitive Function in Older Americans

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