UPI: Hearing expert says rock music taking toll on boomer hearing

Release Date: February 26, 2011 This content is archived.

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Richard Salvi, director of the Center for Hearing and Deafness, is quoted in an article distributed by UPI that reports many baby boomers have reached the age where hearing loss has become a major health problem. "Hearing aids will by necessity become a necessary part of the boomers dress code as the prevalence of age-related hearing loss begins to accelerate beyond the age of 65," he said. The health and lifestyle website Third Age also reported on the findings.

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