When you’re preparing to travel, the checklist can seem endless! However, it is a necessary component of being prepared to enjoy your experience outside of your familiar environment. Preparation goes a long way in ensuring that you’re ready for any unexpected condition that might arise. While you can pick up that forgotten travel-sized tube of …
Tips for Driving with Hearing Aids
Every time we get into our car and hit the open road, safety becomes a concern. The average number of car accidents in the U.S. reach over 6 million annually, and the average number of motor vehicle crash deaths is 10 per 100,000 people a year. Careful driving requires strong visual and auditory senses in …
Tips for Adjusting to New Hearing Aids
For those who have recently been fitted with a new pair of hearing aids, welcome to a world with clear, crisp sounds. You’ll now be able to keep up with conversations with friends and loved ones, engage in all the activities you love, and feel more connected to the world around you. Hearing devices, the …
Tips for Selecting a New Pair of Hearing Aids
Perhaps you’ve thought about getting a hearing aid, but you’re worried about how it will look or whether it will really help. Modern hearing aids are smaller than ever before, with discreet design and incredible features that bring significant benefits to your life. When searching for new hearing aids, it is important to have an …
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 …