Hearing Loss & Fall Risk

18 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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This content was created by Hope Lanter. This content was uploaded by Hope Lanter. This is a YouTube video titled "Hearing Loss & Fall Risk" (created 2025-09-18). The excerpt is an informational health talk by a single, unidentified speaker explaining that even mild hearing loss can triple fall risk, that greater hearing loss further increases fall risk and may accelerate dementia progression, and that hearing aids can help improve quality of life for older adults.

Let's talk about the connection between hearing loss and fall risk. What we know is that if someone has just a mild hearing loss, that their fall risk increases by 3 times. As hearing loss gets worse, we see that fall risk actually gets greater as well. So untreated hearing loss can mean that we're increasing not only our fall risk, but the risk of dementia progressing faster. So hearing aids are helping to improve quality of life As we get older,