Hearing loss is known as the invisible disability for a reason. No one can see or observe your hearing loss, and no one can experience your difficulty and stress. The only thing people can experience is their OWN frustration when they have to repeat themselves. Regrettably, those with hearing loss infrequently get the benefit of […]
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 simple you’ll wonder why you hadn’t previously thought of them. Inventive but simple life-hacks include rotating your toaster […]
There seems to be more misunderstanding when it concerns hearing care than with many other medical specialties. We don’t need to ask, for example, what a dentist or eye doctor can do for us. But when it comes to our hearing, we’re very often uncertain as to what action we should take or who we […]
You have probably watched the commercials. The ones pushing PSAPs, or personal sound amplification products, ensuring an improvement to hearing for as little as 20 dollars. It appears to be a fantastic deal—particularly when compared to the significant selling price of a hearing aid. In reality, it’s not so much a good deal as it […]
In the US, hearing loss to some extent impacts 20 percent of the entire populace, or 48 million people. On average, then, one out of every five people you meet will have hearing loss. For those of you who really want to understand the condition—or that experience hearing loss themselves and would like some personal […]
If you had the ability to prevent 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 per week? That’s roughly the price of a professionally-programmed set of hearing aids, which the latest research shows can decrease the […]
2 While nearly everyone aspires to better health, it’s not a secret that most health-related New Year’s resolutions are unsuccessful. We have the tendency to create resolutions that are too difficult or too complex—all in the name of achieving quick, extreme results. But rather than trying for the quick fix, the new year is an […]
Quick question: how many people in the US are afflicted with some form of hearing loss? What was your answer? I’m ready to bet, if I had to guess, that it was well short of the correct answer of 48 million people. Let’s take a shot at one more. How many individuals in the US […]
