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The number of everyday habits that impact your hearing may surprise you. From smoking to cleaning your ears with cotton swabs, consider the aural effects before you put your hearing at risk.
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With winter on the way, now is the time to check your hearing aids and take preventative measures to ensure the changing weather doesn’t stop you from enjoying your favorite winter activities.
If you don’t spend much time outside, the temperature will not necessarily impact your hearing aids. However, the temperature change from your warm, cozy home to the frigid outdoors can cause condensation that may damage parts of your hearing aids.
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Hearing loss doesn’t always mean you cannot hear words.
Sometimes, a person can hear words but struggle to make sense of them. Difficulty understanding conversations is a common complaint of many people relaying their concerns to an audiologist for the first time. Hearing ability involves not only the ears, but the capacity for the brain and ears to communicate effectively, making sense of sounds.
Hearing Associates offers aural rehabilitation classes to help individuals with hearing loss learn to better navigate their impairment. Despite the fact that there is no cure for hearing loss, these classes are designed to help improve your quality of life with the impairment. We review hearing aid options, determine if assistive listening devices would be beneficial, and discuss effective communication strategies.
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Those who have been treated for hearing loss understand that it’s nothing to take for granted. They’ve experienced for themselves the difference better hearing makes in one’s quality of life.
With October designated as both National Audiology Awareness Month and National Protect Your Hearing Month, now is the ideal time to prioritize your hearing health. If you haven’t done so in the past, there are many reasons to take that first step toward better hearing experiences.
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Although hearing loss has been linked to cognitive decline in the form of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, treating it can be quite effective in preserving brain function.
According to the Alzheimer’s Association, nearly 5.7 people in the U.S. currently have Alzheimer’s or some form of dementia. Another American develops dementia every 65 seconds, a rate that is expected to nearly triple the number of cases to 14 million Americans by 2060.
With Alzheimer’s being the sixth-leading cause of death in this country, there is extensive research into the disease and its causes. While these causes remain unclear, there are considerable findings showing a link between treating hearing loss with hearing aids and a slower rate of cognitive decline.