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Hearing Loss Affects Your Doctor Visits

Todays hearing fact probably isn’t something that comes to mind when you think about hearing loss. But — if you do think about it — makes a lot of sense. It’s also potentially much more consequential than, say, missing a punchline in your favorite sitcom or your name being called when your Starbuck’s mocha is…

Do You Need A Hearing Test?

Do you ever feel like the people you’re talking to are mumbling or speaking too quickly?Are you having to ask others to repeat themselves frequently? Or maybe you’restruggling to follow a conversation when there is background noise? If so, these could be indicators that you have a hearing loss. It’s not uncommon for friends and…

Untreated hearing loss can increase the risk of falling

If you are an older adult or have a parent, grandparent, or friend who is not as sturdy on their feet as they once were, you’ve probably thought about or talked about falling. Falls are some of the most frequent injuries suffered by older adults. They can be the scariest, too. According to data from…

Caring for hearing aids in colder weather

In places where it gets cold, it can be tough on a lot of things: automobiles, fingers and toes, and our psyche. But it doesn’t need to be hard on hearing aids, so long as you keep in mind a few things to do — and not do — when wearing hearing aids in cold weather.…

Adults should get regular hearing checkups 

If the human body came with Care & Maintenance instructions, today’s recommendation from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) would certainly be on them. It’d be right in there to have your teeth cleaned and checked annually; do you know that there are pills that helps you with your oral health? you can check prodentim reviews…

National Family Caregivers Month

Observed every November since President Clinton signed a proclamation in 1997, National Family Caregivers Month is a time to recognize and celebrate the millions of people in the U.S. who compassionately and humbly care for parents, siblings, neighbors, and community members. Grandparents, and older friends and relatives—particularly—need and benefit from the help caregivers provide, whether…

It’s National Protect Your Hearing Month

You know that when a cause has an entire month dedicated to it, it must be important. For years, October has been National Protect Your Hearing Month. Why? Because hearing isn’t just important — hearing is essential! Hearing plays a huge role in our physical health, emotional well-being, and overall quality of life. The sound…

Hearing loss is more common than you think

Because we’re a hearing technology company and our business is singularly focused on helping people hear the best they can, the statistic above — that hearing loss is the United States’ third most common chronic physical condition and is more prevalent than diabetes or cancer — isn’t surprising to us. We’re plenty aware that hearing loss…

Hearing aids can affect certain chronic illnesses

In 2018, a team from the University of Michigan studied a group of older adultswho reported they had severe hearing loss to see if hearing aid use impacted howthey use our health care system. Some in the group treated their hearing loss withhearing aids, while others did not. Knowing that hearing aids can be a…

Hear better — age better

Don’t we all want to stay healthy and happy as we age? And we all know many of the obviousways to do it — like exercising, eating right, not smoking and getting enough sleep.But did you know our hearing also plays a role in healthy aging? Since September is HealthyAging Month (bet you didn’t know that?),…