Among the committee’s recommendations:–Medicare should evaluate options to provide coverage for a range of hearing loss treatments and services, including hearing aids. “We need to provide more affordability and accessibility to hearing health care.”About 30 million Americans have hearing loss, a problem that increases as people pass middle age — and the population is greying rapidly. “Hearing loss has been relegated to the sidelines of health care,” said Dr. Dan Blazer of Duke University, who chaired the academies’ committee. How could hearing loss be related to dementia? Untreated, hearing loss affects people’s physical health, too.

Source: National Post June 02, 2016 17:15 UTC