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 …
Treating Hearing Loss Helps You Stay Socially Connected
We spend our lives making connections with others because we are “social animals”. Through our friends, family members, children and work colleagues we tend to thrive via social circles and intimate connections with others. Our desire to communicate with others, to share experiences and activities is one of the foundations of our humanity. As the …
Treating Hearing Loss Improves Your Relationships
As social creatures, we all know that the key to maintaining a good relationship requires good communication. We rely on our conversations with our friends and partners to keep us engaged and active for a richer, shared life. Our interactions with people, whether social or professional, are crucial to our sense of connectedness. Does the …
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 …