Health care facilities that house the elderly present challenges to the ones that suffer from loss of hearing. Though the difficulties of people living with hearing loss in care facilities are widely known and recognized, more needs to be done to elevate the actual quality of life. Hearing loss and cognitive decline have been confirmed …
Occupational Hearing Hazards
Noise is everywhere. Some of it has been with us for so long that we just take it for granted – like traffic noise or heating and cooling noise. But we need to realize that sound can reach a certain level where it becomes hazardous and even dangerous. Sometimes there is no escaping the noise …