Hearing loss may be affecting you more than you realize. Hearing loss is associated with higher rates of social isolation, anxiety, and depression, and living with untreated hearing loss makes it difficult to communicate with family and friends. People with hearing loss also experience cognitive effects, such as difficulty concentrating on tasks and remembering clearly. Hearing loss is even a … Read More
Athletes and Hearing Loss
Hearing loss among competing athletes is no longer a rarity. The stigma of hearing loss for those that want to be active in competitive sports and even become professional athletes is slowly but surely a thing of the past. This has been promulgated by people with hearing impairment playing in professional teams and divisions from the NFL to the NCAA. … Read More
The Benefits of Being Social for Older Americans
Some seniors find the golden years to be rich with social opportunities. Retirement can provide the opportunity to reconnect with people from your adult life and to make new connections with friends, family, and community members. However, for many seniors physical challenges and other limitations can get in the way of social connections. The many benefits of social life might … Read More
Common Excuses for Not Buying Hearing Aids
Have you noticed recently that your hearing is not as good as it once was? How will you manage to compensate for that loss? Often, hearing loss occurs gradually, which means people do not notice right away that their hearing abilities have changed. We all have to acclimatize and accommodate the changes that occur in our body whether it is … Read More
How Treating Hearing Loss Improves Your Relationships
Think back to the last time you felt very connected to a loved one. What made you feel such a close sense of security and trust? In almost every instance, you can point to a moment of rich conversation, the freely flowing back-and-forth of expression. Sometimes these conversations reach to the deepest parts of ourselves, sharing our true feelings, beliefs … Read More
A Healthy Diet Can Lower the Risk of Hearing Loss
A healthy diet is linked to every aspect of your entire health. Your food choices each day affect your health, how you feel today, tomorrow, and in the future. Combined with physical activity, your diet can help you to reach and maintain a healthy weight, reduce your risk of high blood pressure, heart disease and cancer and promote your overall … Read More
New Year’s Resolution: Get Your Hearing Tested
The New Year has come again and with it comes all the promises of a fresh start! Whatever your New Year’s resolutions are for this year, they will be harder to realize if your health is not in order. While people often think that hearing is only an ear issue nothing could be further from the truth. The whole body … Read More
Hearing Aids and Artificial Intelligence
Studies conducted in the last dozen years have associated hearing impairments to disabling conditions. Such conditions include Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive decline, diabetes, clinical depression, falls among the elderly, cardiovascular disease, and more. These connections are usually referred to as comorbidities, which, when explained further, mean that the concurrent presence of more than two chronic illnesses/diseases in a patient. A … Read More
Hearing Aids and Artificial Intelligence
How should a person respond when partial or full hearing loss occurs? Hearing loss can set a person back in several ways. The first way hearing loss sets a person back is that they can no longer function in society the same way. For the most part, the person with the deprivation must depend upon others to get around in … Read More
Studies on Hearing Loss & Injuries
Studies show that there is a close relationship between hearing loss and accidental injuries. According to the National Health Interview Survey, 16 percent of the people living in the United States have hearing loss. The research was done by this organization also showed that over three months, 2.8 percent of the adults had sustained accidental injuries. The odds of the … Read More