—-— Bulletin Keep Your Brain Fit (NAPSA)—While many strategies for “healthy aging” exist, recent evidence points to the important role of hearing health in maintaining quality of life long-term. Better hearing starts in the brain. Your brain processes andinterprets the sounds your ears receive. When you have hearing loss, your brain doesn't get all the sound information it needs to understand what’s being said and it spends more energy trying to fill in the blanks. That extra effort can takeits toll. A hearing health checkup may be your best defense against cognitive decline. A study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society found that people with hearing loss who wear hearing aids had the same risk for age-related cognitive decline as people without hearing loss. When you actively use hearing aids, you are morelikely to stay socially engaged, one of the primary ways to stimulate your brain. Like any exercise, the mental give-and-take of social interaction helps to keep your brain fit and slows down accelerated cognitive decline. ‘That's the idea behind the BrainHearing™ technology built into Oticon hearing aids. With BrainHearing, Oticon hearing aids deliver sound with the clearest, purest signal possible—in the way your brain is best able to understandit. Because this innovative technology preserves the importantdetails in speech, your brain doesn’t haveto straintofill in the gaps. ‘There's less effort involved in listening. You enjoy a more natural, more effortless listening experience, anywhere, anytime so you can stay active and engagedinall thatlife hasto offer. Learn More For further facts, visit www.Oticon. com.
