What is the effect of long turn deafness on the mind in the elderly?

What? Clarify please. Are you asking the effect of long term deafness on the elderly? If someone is suffering long term deafness, they are pretty much used to it. They have learned to function in their normal lives. However, if they have only experienced hearing problems in their later years they can become depressed, agitated, lonely because they can no longer hear/communicate like they used to. At this late in life they usually have a hard time adapting the way someone in, say, their teens and twenties would.

Deafness adds to their feelings of isolation and loneliness.
I know that they start to deteriorate after the onset of deafness.

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