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i'd like to welcome everybody today's presentation on modifications to improve mental health

for people with hearing loss. I'm your host, Dr. Donnelly Snipes.

Now, I know this doesn't sound like a super exciting concept or topic, but it really is.

Hearing loss is one of the 20 factors that they found is modifiable and in order to reduce

the risk of dementia and cognitive decline in older adults. And so I want people to be aware of the

impact that that might have. But there's a lot of things that you're going to see,

as we always talk about, how something like hearing impairment, which doesn't seem to be related

to mental health, can be intricately involved in all pieces of their life and really have some significant impacts.

We're going to begin by developing an understanding of the causes and consequences of

acquired hearing loss in each piece of life.

And when I say acquired hearing loss, I am talking about someone who develops it over time or as a result of a trauma.

I am not talking about people who are deaf.

People who are deaf have different issues and have often learned to deal with those issues in a different way.

So what we're talking about is people with acquired hearing loss.

And then we'll identify interventions in each piece of life

to reduce the negative impact of acquired hearing loss.

And remember, peace stands for physical, interpersonal, emotional,

emotional, cognitive, and environmental. Hearing loss can be temporary or permanent. You can have

temporary hearing loss after an accident or as a result of a gunshot or because you've got a really

bad sinus infection and you can't hear

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