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title: "Panel Session: Understanding the Relationship Between Cognitive Decline and Hearing Loss"
description: "ADA offers programming and support to audiologists and students who are or who desire to be autonomous practitioners in the field of Audiology."
url: "https://www.audiologist.org/resources/educate/audacity-archive/item/panel-session-understanding-the-relationship-between-cognitive-decline-and-hearing-loss"
date: "2026-06-26T21:34:51+00:00"
language: "en-GB"
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#  Panel Session: Understanding the Relationship Between Cognitive Decline and Hearing Loss

**Presentation Date:** 26 October 2021

**Duration:** 1:28:27

**Return to:** [AuDacity Archive](https://www.audiologist.org/audacity-archive)

Many studies have found an association between untreated hearing loss, Alzheimer’s disease and other types of cognitive issues. These studies determine that patients with hearing loss are more likely to develop cognitive problems than people who do not have hearing loss. This session will discuss the importance of audiologists to identify potential cognitive decline and how to implement this in an audiology practice.

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**Speakers:** Laurel Gregory, M.S.; Jill Davis, Au.D.; Alicia D.D. Spoor, Au.D.; Heidi Hill, Au.D. Pamela Souza, Ph.D.

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