5 Questions to Ask Before Buying Hearing Aids
Congratulations on taking the preliminary step toward healthier hearing by booking your hearing test. You’re already ahead of the game, as a large number of people delay having their hearing tested for years—in some cases decades. But now that you’ve arranged your...
How Hearing Aids Can Boost Brain Function
Photo credit: flickr Saad FaruqueTwentieth century neuroscience has discovered something quite amazing: specifically that your brain can change itself well into adulthood. Whereas in the early 1900s it was thought that the brain ceased changing in adolescence, we now...
6 Things a Hearing Care Professional Can Do For You
There tends to be more confusion when it relates to hearing care than with many other medical specializations. 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 often unsure as to what we should do...
5 Tips For Getting the Most Out of Your New Hearing Aids
Congratulations—you’re set to join the millions of Americans who have discovered how wearing hearing aids can make life much more satisfying and fulfilling. Before long, you’ll be listening to sounds you’ve long forgotten, participating in stimulating discussions, and...
5 Reasons To Pick a Hearing Aid Over a PSAP
You’ve probably watched the commercials. The ones advertising PSAPs, or personal sound amplification products, guaranteeing a boost to hearing for as little as 20 dollars. It appears to be a great deal—particularly when compared to the substantial selling price of a...
The Best Blogs on Hearing Loss
In the US, hearing loss to some degree affects 20 percent of the entire populace, or 48 million individuals. On average, then, one out of every five people you encounter may have hearing loss. For those who truly want to comprehend the condition—or that suffer from...
The Real Cost of Hearing Loss
If you had the ability to avoid or decrease 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 per week? That’s roughly the price of a professionally-programmed set of hearing aids, which the newest...
A Brief History of Hearing Aids
We might take it as a given that our hearing aids are barely visible, 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 results of 400 years of...