How Aging Affects Our Focus

If you’re reading this, perhaps you’ve entered your 50s or 60s and have noticed some struggles in focusing on tasks, or remembering what were once simple facts. 

Your brain’s processing speed slows down as you age; your cognitive abilities, related to your memory and ability to learn new information, struggle to keep up with all the information you’ve taken in over your life. 

Many people see these struggles and associate them with getting older; while there’s some truth to the fact that our brains do slow down as we get older, some of these limitations are reversible through improved sleep, better diet, looking after your body, and professional hearing care.

How Can Hearing Care Help My Focus? 

Age-related hearing loss, or presbycusis, can make it harder to tell apart speakers in busy environments, like in bustling restaurants or around a crowded dinner table. Slower processing speed can affect anyone as we age—but you can help take some of the load off your brain by looking after your hearing. 

A hearing loss challenge can be difficult to come to terms with, but it affects far more than just your ears. Hearing loss has been shown to affect our balance, our social lives, and our brains—what appears to be a memory problem could be alleviated with the help of hearing care. 

Imagine you’re in a restaurant with a few loved ones; it’s a busy night, with full tables and loud music blasting. Focusing on hearing the conversation directly in front of you is tiring, and quite often, you might miss or forget parts of what you were talking about. 

That’s where hearing care comes in. With the help of regular hearing tests and, where applicable, hearing aids, you can focus on the fun things during that busy night out—not your focus or hearing. 

We see patients each day who don’t realize how much their hearing loss has been affecting their entire body. Once they’re fitted with advanced prescription hearing aids, they notice how much easier it is to focus on the task at hand, whether it be watching a TV show, finishing a work project, or even listening to the conversation around the dinner table. 

Concerned About Your Hearing? 

If you’ve read this far and you’re curious about if your struggles to focus are linked to a hearing loss challenge, you’ve already gotten the hardest step out of the way: accepting that you need a boost to your hearing.  

Hearing care helps your entire body, from your balance to your brain’s regular functions, and by partnering with your local team at West Coast Hearing & Balance Center, you benefit from working with a stellar team of hearing care professionals who put you first.