HEARING TIPS
A Brief Guide to Hearing Aids
What Makes Modern Digital Hearing Aids Better?
Technology changes fast: in 2006, the typical 40-inch flat screen TV would've cost you over $1,500. Today, 10 years later, you can purchase a 40-inch flat screen TV for less than $230. The same has happened with hearing aids, even though it’s more likely to escape our...
How to Tell Others About Your Hearing Loss
Hearing loss is identified as the invisible disability for a reason. No one can see or experience your hearing loss, and no one can experience your difficulty and stress. The only thing people can sense is their OWN frustration when they have to constantly repeat...
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 help you save both time and money, and some are so easy you’ll ask yourself why you hadn’t previously...
5 Questions to Ask Before Buying Hearing Aids
Congratulations on taking the initial step toward better hearing by booking your hearing exam. You’re already ahead of the game, as many people delay having their hearing tested for many years—in some cases decades. But now that you’ve booked your hearing test, you’ll...
How Hearing Aids Can Keep Your Brain Young
Photo credit: flickr Saad FaruqueTwentieth-century neuroscience has uncovered something utterly amazing: specifically that your brain can change itself well into adulthood. Whereas in the early 1900s it was concluded that the brain ceased changing in adolescence, we...
What a Hearing Care Professional Can Do For You
There tends to be more confusion when it concerns hearing care than with most 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 many times uncertain as to what action we...
5 Tips For Getting the Most Out of Your New Hearing Aids
Congratulations—you’re prepared to join the millions of Americans who have learned how wearing hearing aids can make life much more satisfying and rewarding. Shortly, you’ll be listening to sounds you’ve long forgotten about, participating in stimulating...
5 Reasons To Pick a Hearing Aid Over a PSAP
You have most likely seen the commercials. The ones marketing PSAPs, or personal sound amplification products, guaranteeing an improvement to hearing for as little as 20 dollars. It appears to be a terrific deal—especially in comparison to the significant price tag of...
The Best Inspirational Hearing Loss Blogs
In the United States, hearing loss to some degree 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 who really want to comprehend the condition—or that suffer from...