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The Overlooked Key to Stroke Recovery: Hearing

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Hearing loss is linked to 8% of dementia cases, making it one of the most treatable risk factors for cognitive decline.

This episode explores the often-overlooked connection between stroke and hearing, featuring audiologist Dr. Virginia Dukansky. She explains how stroke can cause hearing loss, the types of hearing impairments, and the critical link between untreated hearing loss and cognitive decline, including dementia risk. The discussion also highlights advanced hearing aid technology that can improve rehabilitation and quality of life for stroke survivors.

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A practical reminder that hearing belongs in the stroke conversation.

The episode treats hearing as part of the stroke conversation, not an aside, and it does so in plain, useful language. Rosa Hart keeps the focus on the questions listeners are most likely to have: whether stroke can affect hearing, why hearing aids can sound too loud at first,…

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If hearing has felt like a side issue, this episode gives it real weight.

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