As hearing care providers, there’s one particular type of hearing aid that we all are concerned about. It’s detrimental for the patient, and it can stop others from even making an attempt to give hearing aids a try. They’re better-known as “in-the-drawer” hearing aids. In comparison to behind-the-ear or in-the-canal hearing aids, ITD hearing aids […]
In the United States, hearing loss to some degree affects 20 percent of the total 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 have an understanding of the condition—or that experience hearing loss themselves and […]
We may take it as a given that our hearing aids are scarcely detectable, can be controlled with our smartphones, and can differentiate between speech and background sound. What we might not realize, however, is that those capabilities are the products of 400 years of experiment, design, and enhancement. Even 5 years ago, hearing aids […]
If you had the opportunity to avoid or lessen 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 roughly the cost of a professionally-programmed pair of hearing aids, which the newest research shows can decrease […]
