HEARING TIPS
How to Tell Others About Your Hearing Loss
Hearing loss is referred to as the invisible disability for a reason. No one can view or observe your hearing loss, and no one can feel your difficulty and stress. The only thing someone can sense is their OWN frustration when they have to repeat themselves....
Life Hacks For Healthy Hearing
Oxford Dictionaries defines life-hack as: “A strategy or technique adopted in order to manage one’s time and daily activities in a more efficient way.” Life hacks can save you both money and time, and some are so easy you’ll wonder why you hadn’t previously thought of...
5 Questions to Ask Before Buying Hearing Aids
Congratulations on taking the initial step toward better hearing by scheduling your hearing assessment. You’re already ahead of the game, as a great number of people delay having their hearing tested for years—in some instances decades. But now that you’ve booked your...
How Hearing Aids Can Boost Brain Function
Photo credit: flickr Saad FaruqueTwentieth-century neuroscience has uncovered something quite astonishing: specifically that your brain can change itself well into your adult years. Whereas in the early 1900s it was thought that the brain ceased changing in...
What a Hearing Care Professional Can Do For You
There seems to be more confusion when it pertains to hearing care than with most other medical specialties. We don’t have to ask, for instance, what a dentist or eye doctor can do for us. But when it comes to our hearing, we’re many times uncertain as to what we...
Getting the Most Out of Your New Hearing Aids
Congratulations—you’re ready to join the millions of Americans who have realized how utilizing hearing aids can make life more enjoyable and fulfilling. Soon enough, you’ll be listening to sounds you’ve long forgotten about, participating in stimulating conversations,...
5 Reasons To Pick a Hearing Aid Over a PSAP
You have most likely watched the advertisements. The ones marketing PSAPs, or personal sound amplification products, ensuring a boost to hearing for as little as 20 dollars. It seems like a great deal—particularly in comparison to the significant selling price of a...
The Best Inspirational Hearing Loss Blogs
In the United States, hearing loss to some degree affects 20 percent of the entire population, or 48 million people. On average, therefore, one out of every five people you meet may have hearing loss. For those who truly want to have an understanding of the...
The Real Cost of Hearing Loss
If you had the ability to avoid or decrease the risk of cognitive decline as you grew older, how much would you be willing to pay for it? What would you say to 15 dollars per week? That’s somewhere around the cost of a professionally-programmed pair of hearing aids,...