How does age affect hearing?

The most common form of hearing loss associated with aging results from degeneration of a part of the inner ear which contains microscopic blood vessels.

This type of hearing loss does not disproportionately affect the individual's ability to hear and understand speech.

However, other changes within the inner ear associated with aging, including the loss of the ear's tiny 'hair' cells, can have a more serious affect on the ability to understand speech. Vital components of speech sounds, usually the higher pitched consonants, which give intelligibility to speech, are missing or distorted and, for this reason, many people first experience difficulty in understanding women and children - the lower pitched male voices often being easier for them to hear and comprehend. As hearing deteriorates the ability to understand speech becomes more severely affected.

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