[gregatragenet3]

How about this, people who experience hearing loss are more likely to have a /diagnosis/ of dementia? Because hearing loss causes them to underperform on the verbally administered evals.

My father in law got a dementia diagnosis, after this my wife and I started going with him to his appointments - and discovered why he had such a diagnosis. He's the type of person who'll nod and pretend to hear/understand when he doesn't. We know this just from our interactions with him. The tool they use to eval is verbal question/answer and he did much better on the evals when we were with him and keyed the doctor in on that they ensure he hears the question or they give it to him in written form.