HEARING TIPS
Tips for Taking Care of Your Hearing Aids
To help keep your hearing aids working properly for years to come, you'll need to learn about proper care and maintenance. And although it may seem like an additional burden, with the right process your hearing aid care will become easy and automatic. The secret is...
How to Become a Better Communicator Despite Hearing Loss
Communication is reliably reported as one of the most—if not the most—important factors to strengthening and sustaining healthy relationships. As stated by the PBS program The Emotional Life: "How couples behave when solving problems together or arguing can predict...
The Advantages of Wearing Two Hearing Aids
Are two hearing aids better than one? If you’re searching for the quick answer, then yes, almost all cases of hearing loss are best managed with two hearing aids. If you want to learn why, or are curious about why we have two ears to begin with, then keep on reading....
The Alarming Hearing Loss Statistics You Need to Know About
Far too often, we hear people say that hearing loss only applies to “old people,” that it’s just a natural part of getting old, or that it’s generally an uncommon condition. These remarks couldn’t be further from the facts. Here are statistics you need to know about:...
4 Important Sounds You’re Missing With Hearing Loss
Here’s something many people are surprised to learn: in the majority of cases of hearing loss, people can hear many sounds just fine, and have difficulty only with select sounds. Particularly, if you have trouble only with high-pitched sounds, you may have the most...
How to Pick the Right Hearing Aid Model
Today's advances in technology ensure that your hearing loss can be efficiently treated with the appropriate hearing aid model. The challenge is choosing the right one. With all of the hearing aid models on the market, it can be a little overwhelming. But by taking...
How Modern Hearing Aids Can Save Your Holiday Season
Living with hearing loss during the holiday season can be particularly difficult. While you may actually prefer to NOT hear some of your relatives, the conversations you do wish to participate in can be stressful. And because nearly all large holiday gatherings tend...
Why Hearing Aids Make You Happier Than Winning the Lottery
Presuming that you have hearing loss, what’s more likely to make you happy? A) Winning the lottery, or B) Purchasing a new set of hearing aids It may seem clear to you that the answer is A, but research on happiness tells a very different story. First of all, most...
5 Good Reasons to Get a Hearing Test
In the US, approximately 37.5 million adults have some degree of hearing loss. Yet according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), only 20 percent of those who could benefit from hearing aids actually use them. That suggests that millions of Americans who could...
The Health Benefits of Better Hearing
It’s frequently suggested that we don’t completely appreciate the things we have until they’re gone, and this seems to be specifically true of our ability to hear. Hearing loss is not only difficult to detect; it’s also tough to appreciate just how much hearing...