Have you ever considered how challenging life maybe for the person suffering from hearing impairment? Untreated hearing loss can affect a person’s life in a major way. What is life like from the perspective of a person suffering? What Could Happen with Untreated Hearing Loss? Communication can be challenging Social isolation becomes more common Increased risk for dementia Relationships can …
Nutrients that Can Boost Your Hearing Health
Most everyone knows another person who suffers from a loss of hearing. This loss can be a devastating problem in life. Today, however, we do have many ways the auditory impaired can be helped. Probably the first choice is listening devices. Now we also have surgery and other procedures to help people with this loss. Today we are also learning …
Working with Hearing Loss
Hearing loss is a serious issue since about 60% of people who are affected by it are in the US workforce. This means that it’s likely that if you aren’t affected by it at work, you will know someone who is. Here’s some information about workers’ rights, protecting your hearing, accommodations for hearing loss at work, the Americans with Disabilities …
How Treating Hearing Loss Improves Your Relationships
Imagine trying to build a relationship with someone if you had no ability to communicate. Although humans are remarkably adept at finding ways to get our ideas across without the use of spoken language, it remains by far our most skilled means of communicating. The last time you encountered someone who spoke another language, you might have faced some of …
Addressing Hearing Loss May Improve Care of Older Adults
Recall the last time you were in a healthcare environment. What did it sound like? Although some clinics, offices, and particularly the private patient rooms of family practice medical facilities can be relatively quiet, many of them are not. With the beeping sounds of machines, noisy equipment, care givers discussion options, and a host of other distractions, the healthcare environment …
September is World Alzheimer’s Month
Chances are, you may know someone who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. This person may even be close to you, a family member, or a loved one. The lapses of memory, disorientation, and feelings of alienation can be devastating, sometimes making the person with Alzheimer’s disease feel that the people in the room are strangers, even if those people are family. …
Common Misconceptions about Hearing Loss
For a long time, hearing loss carried a huge stigma. People didn’t want to be seen as old and hearing aids were a visible sign that they didn’t have all their original faculties intact. These days, with prominent celebrities like Halle Berry, Jodie Foster and Bill Clinton not just wearing hearing aids but talking about them, that stigma is being …
Things People with Hearing Loss Wish You Knew
Having a hearing loss can be difficult. But trying to explain it to someone who has normal hearing can be even harder. Hearing loss is an invisible disability so it is often misunderstood, downplayed or even ignored, sometimes even by those closest to you. Hearing loss can have a huge impact on your life, and the lives of those who love you. …
Investing in Your Health: Treating Hearing Loss
According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), 36 million Americans have a hearing loss—this includes 17% of our adult population. The incidence of hearing loss increases with age. Approximately one third of Americans between ages 65 and 74 and nearly half of those over age 75 have hearing loss. Hearing loss is the third most …
Talking about Hearing Loss: Why Your Disclosure Method Matters
Hearing loss interferes with the ability to communicate easily and effectively. Those who have had untreated hearing loss for a while might already understand this difficulty in communication. Untreated hearing loss is a danger because communication is at the heart of all our social relationships, and if we don’t have ways of communicating with others, we become socially isolated. When …