What would be your most ideal day with the people you love most in life? Whether it is your significant other, your children or grandchildren, what activities do you most love to share with them? Do you love to travel to new cities, host dinner parties, go on long hikes in nature or stay at home cooking an intimate meal and snuggling on the couch watching a movie? When communication is clear and you are …
Musicians’ Concerns with Hearing Loss
While everyone deserves to hear clearly, there are a few professions that require excellent hearing, and if you’re an air traffic controller, an emergency dispatcher, or anyone working in law enforcement, hearing clearly is important for everyone’s safety. Hearing is also essential in many factory and trade jobs, and if you’re unable to hear someone yell a warning, you’re far more likely to have a serious workplace accident. Another profession that relies on hearing are …
Symptoms of Memory Loss Could Actually Be Hearing Loss
A recent study in the Canadian Journal on Aging tries to understand two complicated and easily misunderstood conditions. On the one hand, memory loss afflicts many people, particularly those who are older in age, and we still know strikingly little about the workings of serious conditions such as dementia. Although the symptoms of memory loss are clear to those who experience it as well as loved ones and family members, the cause of memory loss, …
Tips for Better Communication with People with Hearing Loss
If you have a loved one, friend, or partner with untreated hearing loss, you are familiar with the struggle to understand one another. The scene often begins with a phrase spoken in the other direction, without the ability to see one another, at too quiet a volume, or in a noisy place. When you speak those words, it begins a long chain of confusion between the two of you. Some people try to hide the …
Hearing Aid Compatible Assistive Listening Devices
As technology continues to advance at seemingly light speeds, a buffet of assistive listening devices continue to appear. Back in the day, the introduction of the digital signal process chip in the 1980s anticipated the many fully digital hearing aid models we take for granted today. It’s hard to believe it was only a few decades ago that digital technology was revolutionary. Today, most hearing aid options are digital and the technology that accompanies and …
Choosing the Right Hearing Aid
Choosing the Right Hearing Aid Once you have made the decision to tackle your hearing loss through the use of a hearing aid, it’s time to consider your options. Here is our guide to choosing the right hearing aid. Fitting your hearing aid Everyone hears differently. After a consultation with audiologist Laurie Duffy, M.S., test results can be matched with the hearing aid of your choice to best suit your specific needs. This means that …
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