Are you having difficulty following conversations? Or have you started turning up the volume on the TV a bit more each week? These are two of the most common signs of hearing loss, and a sign that you may want to treat your hearing loss. …
Know Alzheimer’s Disease: Treat Hearing Loss in September during World Alzheimer’s Month
September is World Alzheimer’s Month! Launched in 2012 by Alzheimer’s Disease International, this global campaign focuses on raising awareness and destigmatizing dementia so that there is greater access to resources. Dementia refers to a group of medical conditions that lead to the deterioration of cognitive …
Working with Hearing Loss
One major challenge facing older Americans in the workforce is higher rates of hearing loss. Of course, while hearing age can affect people of any age, those aged 65 and older are much more likely to experience difficulty hearing. One in three Americans over 65 …
Avoiding Hearing Tests Could Make the Problem Much Worse
The most common forms of hearing loss are degenerative, meaning that they tend to get worse with time. Age-related hearing loss tends to progress throughout the senior years, and noise-induced hearing loss is a function of accumulated noise exposure over time. However, that degenerative quality …
How Treating Hearing Loss Helps Your Mental Health
If you ask someone about their experience of getting treatment for hearing loss, some common themes come up. Many people talk about how relieved they are to have easy conversations that make sense to them. Similarly, people report a relief of anxiety, frustration, and even …
Q&A About Hearing Loss
Those who have hearing loss are intimately acquainted with the experience of straining to hear and only gathering fragments of sound. Although each person can describe to you in detail what they are hearing, each experience of hearing loss is unique. The similarities between individual …
Can Hearing Aids Be “Stylish”?
Hearing aids have come a long way from the uniformly beige plastic units that used to be the only option. Although many continue to opt for this simple style, a wide array of options have arisen to make hearing aids more stylish. And yet, what …
Improving Communication with Your Family
Even the closest families need help communicating every now and then, but there is a heightened demand for assistance when hearing loss enters the picture. By its very nature, difficulty hearing negatively impacts communications and necessitates incorporating new ways of interacting. This can be a …
Earbud Use Could Harm Your Hearing
Does anyone have recollections of parents yelling to turn down the music? You may have repeated the warning to your own children. With the advent of personal devices, though, much of our listening behaviors have shifted to more interior experience. Now, we plug into our …
Hearing Loss & Fatigue
Feeling tired can seem like an inevitable result of a busy, active life. And at times, fatigue is the healthy outcome of external demands. It tells us when we need a break. For some people, particularly introverts, social interactions alone may result in a feeling …