Long ago, Apple entered the HealthSpan market by including an expanding array of sensors into their flagship wearables device: the iWatch. By turning AirPods into starter hearing aids and softening the stigma of wearing hearing aids, people can hear better while outwardly appearing to be listening to their favorite playlist. This feature will be available this fall in a software update for AirPod Pros.
Here's some background from The Atlantic.
“Hearing loss is arguably the single largest risk factor for cognitive decline and dementia,” says Frank Lin, the director of the Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.
Lin and his colleagues have foundthat mild hearing loss doubles the risk of dementia, and moderate loss triples it. In this context, a hearing aid can look almost like a miracle device for slowing aging: In that same study, Lin also found that among older adults at increased risk for cognitive decline, participants who wore a hearing aid for three years experienced about 50 percent less cognitive loss than the control group.
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