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Older adults with hearing loss (HL), visual loss (VL), and/or cognitive impairment (CI) have poorer health outcomes. There is a strong relationship between HL, VL, CI, and incident dementia. Potential mechanisms include common biological substrates, exhaustion of cognitive reserve, and/or increased social isolation from communication difficulties. Our team examines co-relationships between HL/VL and CI in persons with dementia in the Canadian Consortium for Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA). We will review our recent work which has: 1) examined the relationship between CI and sensory loss on quality of care in home care; 2) examined the relationship between HL, VL, social network diversity, social participation, social support, and loneliness in the Canadian Longitudinal Study of Aging (CLSA); and 3) examines the incidence of HL and VL and their relationship with CI in CCNA participants. We will discuss the implications of our findings using these unique datasets for function and well-being. |
