HEARING INTERVENTION TO REDUCE COGNITIVE DECLINE: DESIGN AND FINDINGS OF THE ACHIEVE RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
Jennifer Deal, Nicholas Reed, Luigi Ferrucci · 2023
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Jennifer Deal, Nicholas Reed, and Luigi Ferrucci present the design and findings of ACHIEVE, the first large trial of whether treating hearing loss slows thinking decline in older adults. Their 2023 session summary lays out a trial of 977 adults aged seventy to eighty-four with untreated mild to moderate hearing loss and intact thinking.
Half the group received best-practice hearing care, with aids, fitting, and training. The rest got a healthy aging education program. Three years of follow-up tracked thinking change as the main outcome. The session also covers effects on social engagement, mood, and quality of life. The authors frame the pathways plainly: distorted sound may tax the brain, shrink social life, and speed decline, and hearing care may ease all three.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jennifer Deal, Nicholas Reed, Luigi Ferrucci |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |