Our family, our friends, our hobbies, and our social activities are enriching to our lives. These are some of the things we need to stay engaged in as we age. The benefits are not just emotional or intellectual – they actually contribute to our overall health and longevity. How does this correlate with our hearing …
How Treating Hearing Loss Improves Your Relationships
Our senses allow us to engage and perceive the world around us. We rely on them to communicate, interact with others and engage in activities that form the foundation of a life well-lived. As social animals, we know that our relationships on every level impact the quality of our lives. We need to bond with …
Improving Communication with Your Family
When one person in the family suffers from hearing loss its effects ripple out to everyone and radiates through to all levels of communication. It can be more than just challenging at times and can increase frustrations and create unforeseen stumbling blocks. However, when everyone is in agreement to approach the situation with techniques to …
Things People with Hearing Loss Wish You Knew
Hearing loss is an invisible condition and is one of the top three public health concerns in the nation. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), around 15% of adult Americans have reported issues with their hearing and close to 30 million would gain from wearing hearing aids. Unfortunately, hearing health is not at …
May is Better Speech and Hearing Month!
May is the month designated by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association of America (ASHA) to bring attention and information to one of the nations’ growing health concerns: hearing loss. They are offering the public a variety of resources and avenues of treatment crucial to our hearing health and the importance of its sustainability. One of the …
Encouraging a Loved One to Take a Hearing Test
Helen Keller once said, “Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.” Untreated hearing loss often leads to breakdowns in communication causing strain in our most important relationships. It is often difficult to bring up hearing loss with a loved one. While hearing loss is the third most common medical condition in the …