ArticleThe journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences2021
Demographic and Socioeconomic Disparities in Life Expectancy With Hearing Impairment in the United States.
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- The impact of hearing loss on annual incident age-associated dementia cases and quality of life in the United States.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2026Article
- Sensory impairments and cognitive impairment among Mexican American older adults: nativity differences.Aging & mental health · 2026Article
- Downstream of hearing loss: a population-based multistate analysis of lifetime risk and years lived with hearing loss, dementia and their comorbidity in Finland.Age and ageing · 2025Article
- Regional disparities in cognitive life expectancy: The role of birth and current residence in the United States.Health & place · 2025Article
- Country Differences in Older Men's Hearing Difficulty Disadvantage.Journal of aging and health · 2025Article
- Trajectories in chronic disease accrual and mortality across the lifespan in Wales, UK (2005-2019), by area deprivation profile: linked electronic health records cohort study on 965,905 individuals.The Lancet regional health. Europe · 2023Article
- Longitudinal Analysis of Social Isolation and Cognitive Functioning among Hispanic Older Adults with Sensory Impairments.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Inequalities in Retirement Life Span in the United States.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2023Article
- The impact of hearing loss on trajectories of depressive symptoms in married couples.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Article
- Sensory Disabilities and Social Isolation Among Hispanic Older Adults: Toward Culturally Sensitive Measurement of Social Isolation.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2022Article
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objectivesHearing impairment is one of the most common disabilities among older people, and its prevalence will increase as the U.S. population ages. However, little is known about social disparities in onset or transitions into and out of hearing impairment, nor how these transitions impact years of life to be spent impaired.
methodWe investigate the number of years an "average" person can expect to live with and without hearing impairment after age 50; sex, race, educational, and regional differences in these expectancies; and the implication of hearing impairment for remaining life expectancy. Bayesian multistate life table methods are applied to 9 waves of data from the Health and Retirement Study (1998-2014) to investigate social disparities in life expectancy with hearing impairment (n = 20,200) for the general population, people hearing impaired at age 50, and people hearing unimpaired at age 50.
resultsMen, Hispanics, persons with less educational attainment, and those born in the south can expect to live a larger proportion of their remaining lives hearing impaired. Although transitions from hearing impaired to unimpaired occur, those with some hearing impairment at age 50 can expect to live more years with hearing impairment, and hearing impairment does not shorten remaining life expectancy. DISCUSSION: Significant sociodemographic disparities in hearing impaired life expectancy exist. In contrast to past research, we find that hearing impairment does not affect total life expectancy. Future research should consider the consequences of hearing impairment for years to be lived with other age-related and potentially downstream health outcomes.
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