Letter: Hearing loss

Hearing aids may protect against higher risk of dementia linked to hearing loss (Sean Dempsey/PA) (PA Archive)

DR TONY Smith describes the alarming increase in hearing loss (Sunday Review, 2 October). An appalling corollary is that today's teenagers, already growing deaf, and regarding loud, continuous music as their right, will find it necessary to turn up the volume further and further, thereby damaging the next generation further still . . . and so ad infinitum.

John Home, London N19

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