Ep. 2023-05: Gabrielle Saunders, PhD, on Hearing Aids, Dementia, and Hearing Loss

<p class="MsoNormal" style= "margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"><span style= "font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Dr. D’Anne Rudden speaks with Dr. Gabrielle Saunders about some of the gray areas of audiology, such as the nuanced relationship between hearing aids, dementia, and hearing loss. <span style= "mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"><span style= "font-size: 10pt;">Dr. Saunders is a Senior Research Fellow at the Manchester Centre for Audiology and Deafness at the University of Manchester and is affiliated with the VA Rehabilitation R&D National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research (NCRAR) in Portland, Oregon.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"><span style= "font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri', sans-serif;"> For more on this topic, check out Dr. Saunders’s feature in the May 2023 issue of <em>The Hearing Journal</em>: <a href= "https://journals.lww.com/thehearingjournal/Fulltext/2023/05000/Do_Hearing_Aids_Reduce_Dementia,_or_Does_Dementia.6.aspx"> Do Hearing Aids Reduce Dementia, or Does Dementia Reduce Hearing Aid Use?</a></span></p>