How about if he starts wearing a "hearing aid" that's actually an earpiece where they feed his dying brain information. If somebody hacked that - it would be epic.

"It's like when I was a boy in Scranton during the middle ages and me, Black Death Buddy, and Daddy-o Frankenstein hung out with the soda jerk to talk to the hula hoop girls, jack. America is not like it used to be pretend ever was. Does anybody else smell burning rubber?"