I hope, I will not need hearing aids some day. I'm not a friend of earphones, and I don't understand, how people can listen to the very nice music with these terrible in-ear-phones. I remember, how the first hearing aids had looked (very similiar), because I had seen an old man in a bus with a hearing aid, when I was 9 (1975/1976)...
I'm a bit short-sighted, but not so much, maybe I will become farsighted some day. My husband has also become farsighted very much now (since some years), and he is 1 year older than me (I'm 46 now). My father was short-sighted very much in his younger years, but in his last years he didn't need his glasses anymore...
I can only hope, that I will not become totally blind or deaf some day, because that would be not very nice for me, also a wheelchair would be not so nice, not only a dementia...
My mother should get mentaltraining, the doctor had prescribed it. The process of a dementia can be made slower, but it cannot be stopped, of course...
Not only old people remember especially older things and events. My mother had asked me a long time ago: "What was the first thing You remember?" And I had answered: I was in a stroller. There was a walking journey in the street, then my mother brought me home. And in the stairwell the stroller had lost one wheel (then it had only 3 wheels and not 4 anymore). "You remember exactly this?" My mother was astonished. I think, I will remember this also, if I'm very old some day...
I can remember nothing from my stay in the hospital, which was a little bit later, when I was not in this stroller anymore. But I can remember this one funny thing from the time before and everything from the time after...