TY - JOUR
T1 - Longitudinal Relationship Between Hearing Aid Use and Cognitive Function in Older Americans
AU - on behalf of the SENSE-Cog WP1 group
AU - Maharani, Asri
AU - Dawes, Piers
AU - Nazroo, James
AU - Tampubolon, Gindo
AU - Pendleton, Neil
AU - Bertelsen, Geir
AU - Cosh, Suzanne
AU - Cougnard-Grégoire, Audrey
AU - Delcourt, Cécile
AU - Constantinidou, Fofi
AU - Helmer, Catherine
AU - Ikram, M. Arfan
AU - Klaver, Caroline C.W.
AU - Leroi, Iracema
AU - Meester-Smor, Magda
AU - Mutlu, Unal
AU - Nael, Virginie
AU - Schirmer, Henrik
AU - Tiemeier, Henning
AU - von Hanno, Therese
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Copyright the Authors Journal compilation © 2018, The American Geriatrics Society
PY - 2018/6
Y1 - 2018/6
N2 - 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 (N=2,040). 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.
AB - 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 (N=2,040). 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.
KW - cognition
KW - hearing aid use
KW - longitudinal analysis
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85045117791
U2 - 10.1111/jgs.15363
DO - 10.1111/jgs.15363
M3 - Article
C2 - 29637544
AN - SCOPUS:85045117791
SN - 0002-8614
VL - 66
SP - 1130
EP - 1136
JO - Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
JF - Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
IS - 6
ER -