Do you struggle with hearing loss? If you do you are not alone! The World Health Organization reports that “currently more than 1.5 billion people (nearly 20% of the global population) live with hearing loss. 430 million of them have disabling hearing loss.” In the US, hearing loss is the third most common medical condition affecting people of all ages. Even so one …
Staying Safe with Hearing Loss
Do you have hearing loss? You may think of it as a minor inconvenience, but studies show that its much more dangerous than you’d first suspect. Aside from the emotional and mental impact of hearing loss, hearing loss can be a risk to your physical health. Aside from communicating and keeping up with social situations, hearing helps us be aware …
Healthy Habits to Protect Your Hearing
Many people underestimate the importance of your hearing. However, healthy hearing helps us listen and respond to others, fostering healthy relationships and increasing our ability to socialize and stay active. This becomes increasingly important as we age. Presbycusis, also known as age related hearing loss, occurs due to changes in our ears. While 1 in 3 people over the age …
How Exercise, Diet, Sleep, and Hearing Affect Brain Aging
We know we are supposed to eat healthily and stay active for our health, but did you know that includes your brain as well. Brain health is as much connected to our overall health as our heart, lungs, muscles, and bones. The brain is an amazing organ that controls thought, memory, emotion, touch, motor skills, vision, breathing, temperature, hunger, and …
Treating Sudden Hearing Loss
Hearing loss affects 1 in 8 people (30 million people or 13% of the population) in the US between 12 and 69 in both ears, based on standard examinations. However, a hidden hearing loss is much rarer. Experts estimate that sudden hearing loss, described as sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL) strikes between one and six people per 5,000 every year. Even so, …
What is Single-Sided Hearing Loss?
Do you struggle to hear out of one ear? It could mean you have a single sided hearing loss. Also known as unilateral hearing loss, it’s a condition which effects around 60,000 in the US. Even so, even more common is bilateral hearing loss, affecting one in eight people in the US, equaling approximately 30 million people or 13% of …
Getting to Know Your Hearing Aids
If you’ve recently been diagnosed with hearing loss and you are looking for the right pair of hearing aids, it can feel overwhelming. There are so many styles and features, it can feel overwhelming choosing the right one for you. Fortunately, we are here to help. It’s our job to know the world of hearing aids in and out! We …
All About Hearing Aid Compatible Assistive Listening Devices
Living with hearing loss can be a challenge, even with the perfect pair of heairng aids. It can still be a challenge to hear what people are saying to you and may take extra focus. However, with the right accommodations, it can make all the difference between successful communication and confusion. It may be a matter of asking people to …
A Possible Link Between Exercise & Reduced Risk for Hearing Loss
Do you like to exercise? It can be difficult to start a routine but once you do, you can enjoy all the benefits such as reducing your risk of heart diseases, managing blood sugar levels, improving mental health, keeping your thinking, learning, and judgment skills sharp as you age, improving quality of sleep and reducing risks of falls. Now a …
Monitoring Your Daily Exposure to Noise
It’s a noisy world out there and the way things keep going it just keeps getting louder. There is more traffic construction, constant loud music around commercial venues, fans, generators, compressors, and mills. Even in your own home and those of your neighbor’s television sets boom, music blasts from stereos, while vacuum cleaners, fans, and coolers, washing machines, dishwashers, lawnmowers roar …