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By age 40, about one in 10 adults will experience some hearing loss. It happens so slowly and gradually, says audiologist Dina Rollins, “you don’t realize what you’re missing.” And even as it worsens, many people are in denial.

By the time someone is convinced they have a hearing problem, age-related memory loss may have already set in. But, here’s the good news: Restoring hearing with hearing aids can help slow down cognitive decline.

Consider these findings: Researchers tracked about 2,000 older adults in the U.S. both before and after they started using hearing aids. The adults were participants in a big, national study, the Health and Retirement Study.

“We found the rate of cognitive decline was slowed by 75 percent following the adoption of hearing aids,” says Asri Maharani, a researcher at the University of Manchester in the division of neuroscience and experimental psychology and an author of the paper. “It is a surprising result,” Maharani says. The study was published this spring in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

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“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.” Jane Smiley

Me too! I love books. I come from a long line of biblioholics. I see people making “stacks of shame” and putting all their unread books together for a photo. I ain’t doing that. It’d take too much time away from reading to gather them all from different shelves and stacks around the house.

Every penny you save is like a party in your piggy bank. Go ahead, dance about it. 

GUACAMOLE IS SO DELICIOUS AND SO GOOD FOR YOU. AND IT IS A SIMPLE, EASY PLEASURE.

IF YOU ARE BROKE, MAYBE LIMIT HOW OFTEN YOU GO TO CHIPOTLE.

BUT IF YOU ARE ALREADY AT CHIPOTLE, GET THE GUACAMOLE.

IT WILL LITERALLY MAKE NO DIFFERENCE TO YOUR FINANCIAL LIFE.

Also, free kindle books. And not just the classics, but new releases. They have dvds of movies and shows (even Weeds, which was a terrific show. I just thought it was funny the library had multiple seasons). We even have rows of cds you can check out. Ours is usually full of kids for story time or in the afternoons, adults using the computers. It’s also in an old mansion that was donated to the city. I love our library so hard.

http://old-new-orleans.com/NO_Latter_Library.html