Assistant professor of communication disorders Sara Mamo at UMass Amherst recently received a five-year, $745,000 grant from the NIH’s National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders to study age-related hearing loss in people with mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. The goal is to identify techniques and tools to improve their ability to engage with family, caregivers and friends and to enhance their quality of life.