Benefits of Hearing Aids

Hearing loss The facts: 27 million Americans experience hearing loss but only 2% of us do anything about it - like have our hearing tested and seeking treatment such as hearing...

If you have an untreated hearing loss, the holidays will not exactly be music to your ears. Instead of feeling closer to your family, you may spend the holidays feeling isolated and sad if you can't hear your loved ones.

Studies carried out in Great Britain and the United States indicate that untreated hearing loss can harm relationships. In both studies, nearly half of respondents said that...

Hearing aids ain't what they used to be, that's a fact. Digital and wireless technologies have equipped hearing aid manufacturers to stuff more features into smaller, more...

With the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, unemployment in the United States is skyrocketing. So it is understandable that the competition for the jobs that do...

One of the most common complaints brought up by hearing aid wearers is the inconvenience of background noise. In an article published on the website of the Better Hearing...

Ask any happy couple what are the secrets to a successful marriage, and chances are that "communication" will be on the list. That's because allows...

There is a fair amount of research demonstrating that people from vastly different cultures and geographical locations respond to music - even unfamiliar one - on an emotional...

You may not realize just how much you rely on hearing to keep yourself out of danger's way. You hear the car often before you see it, giving you a few seconds notice that a...

Have you ever thought about how many pleasurable sounds you are missing because of hearing loss? We are not even talking about vital sounds that warn us of impending &ndas...

For the millions of Americans with hearing loss, hearing aids are a sound investment in a down economy. Studies have shown hearing aids not only improve quality of life but increase earning power on the job.

Unless you have been living on Pluto (or another planet) all these years, you know that untreated hearing loss can be devastating. It can impact your safety at home, out in...

Hearing loss most often gradually occurs and persons often do not realize how much hearing loss they have the extent to which it is affecting their ability to hear. Here's...

Collaborative Effort Yields Practical Tool to Help Patients and Hearing Care Practitioners Map Steps Along the Patient JourneyNaerum, DK, March 25 - Ida Institute today announced...

The markets are crashing, businesses are collapsing, and investment portfolios are going south. With the economy at its worst since the Great Depression, you may be wondering...

Indeed, how times have changed. But the myths associated with hearing loss and hearing aids tend to stick around even though research, science and technology have all come...

When you think of love, when you think of solid, satisfying personal relationships, what's the first thing you think of? Elephants. No? Not elephants? Well, when it comes...

Encouraging your parents to get hearing aids is no easy task and is often a process that takes time and patience. Healthy Hearing (www.HealthyHearing.com) recently published an...

Hearing loss treatment with hearing aids has been found to improve many areas of quality of life, including improving one's sex life.

My dad is 83. He's legally blind and, after 50 years of shooting skeet, he's finally ready to admit that his hearing isn't what it used to be. Same with my mom....

Delaying the use of hearing aids can lead to more difficulty understanding words because the ears have not been stimulated. Some research indicates that this condition can be reversed with the use of hearing aids.

According to studies by the NCOA, people who treat their hearing loss with hearing aids report improvements in earning power, relationships, feelings about themselves, self-confidence, independence, and overall quality of life.

How do hearing aids affect the enjoyment of music?

Hearing aids can be adjusted to provide amplification specific to a wearer's hearing loss, rather than just turning up all sounds.

Hearing aids have circuitry in them to address most types of background noise, while still enabling the wearer to hear conversations.