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Physical/Psychological Changes to Hearing During the aging process, there are physical changes that take place. A big change to people over 60 that can affect them physically could be hearing impairment, but about 33% of those 75 to 84, and about half of those over 85, have a hearing loss. Elderly people find it hard to hear high pitch noises, when people are speaking in a place with background noise they can also find this hard to understand. Hearing lost can effect people physically in the mind, because the person who has a hearing problem can become frustrated and embarrassed that they are un able to hear, mainly because they have been able to here well and now they cant. It can cause people to hold back on taking part in a conversation because they might feel they can't understand someone, and may come out with the wrong answer. When people...

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