If you start talking about dementia at your next family get-together, you will most likely put a dark cloud over the whole event. Dementia isn’t a topic most individuals are intentionally looking to discuss, mainly because it’s rather scary. A degenerative cognitive disease in which you gradually (or, more frighteningly, quickly) lose your mental faculties, […]
Gatherings. More, and more family gatherings. It probably feels like you’re meeting or reuniting with every relative you have, every weekend, during the holidays. The holiday season can be fun (and also challenging) for this reason. Normally, it’s easy to look forward to this yearly catching up. You get to check in on everyone and […]
There are other symptoms of a cold that are less prevalent than the well known runny nose. Once in a while, a cold can go into one or more ears, but you rarely hear about those. While you may generally think of colds as harmless, here’s why this ear-related cold symptom should never be dismissed. […]
Lately you’ve noticed that you can’t hear out of one ear. Is that bad? (Spoiler: It’s likely.) What could be the cause? And when should you see a hearing professional? […]
If you have hearing loss, should you be driving? Yes! Turns out, hearing loss doesn’t impact your overall ability to drive that much–as long as you pick up these extra habits. […]
