Key Takeaways Hearing loss might impact seniors’ health by promoting lonelinessPeople provided hearing aids held onto more friends as they agedAdding hearing aid coverage to Medicare could boost ...

Missourians could soon have an easier time treating hearing loss as a bill moves quickly through the general assembly.

One-in-10 Missourians experience hearing loss according to the University of Missouri at Kansas City, but only a third of them receive hearing aids or cochlear implants.