Dementia Archives

10.25.2018 Two hearing aids

Health Equity
Aging Populations

Hearing Loss is Memory Loss

Asri Maharani and colleagues followed patients for 18 years to measure associations between hearing aid use and episodic memory. Memory loss slowed after participants started using hearing aids.

Fellow Chrissy Packtor

01.19.2018 Map of inundated area in Iwanuma City, Japan

Environment
Natural Disasters

Social Capital and Natural Disasters

Social capital can improve mental health after disaster strikes. Strong social networks helped the elderly cope with housing damage in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, per research in the Lancet.

Fellow Qing Wai Wong

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