Engaging with Hearing Loss in 2024: Boosting Awareness and Taking Action
Hearing loss affects approximately 15% of U.S. adults. Because hearing loss is considered an invisible condition, you may not be aware of the people in your life living with it. Taking time in 2024 to learn about and engage with hearing loss is one way you can help lessen its invisibility. Two opportunities to engage…
How Can Hearing Aids Grow Your Social Circle?
Making and maintaining friendships is hard. For those with hearing loss, growing a social circle comes with added difficulties. Let’s take a look at how hearing loss impacts your ability to maintain a healthy social circle and how hearing aids can help. How Does Hearing Loss Impact Social Relationships? A 2009 study found that hearing…
Enhance Your Hearing, Health and Well-Being in the New Year
As we embark on a new year, it’s time to prioritize your overall health and well-being. While we often set resolutions for improving our health, it’s common to forget the importance of hearing health. Addressing hearing loss not only improves your ability to communicate with the world around you but also safeguards your overall health…
Using Hearing Aids To Improve Safety
Approximately 28.8 million U.S. adults could benefit from the use of hearing aids. Hearing aids are best known for improving the wearer’s ease of communication, but the small devices may provide benefits you haven’t yet considered. In addition to more accessible communication, hearing aids can enhance your safety and give you a greater sense of…
What to Know About Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease
Autoimmune diseases occur when the immune system mistakenly targets and attacks healthy cells in the body. Autoimmune inner ear disease (AIED) specifically involves the immune system misidentifying normal ear cells as harmful, leading to an attack that results in hearing loss. AIED is rare, affecting only one percent of the 28 million Americans with hearing…
How Can Hearing Aids Improve Your Next TV Binge?
Approximately 37.7 million adults in the U.S. report some trouble hearing. If you’re navigating the personal change of adjusting to hearing aids, simple tasks such as watching TV can feel a little frustrating. Luckily, there are still several ways to comfortably watch your favorite shows alongside your family and friends without needing to turn up…
Will Humidity Affect Your Hearing Aids?
Breathing in that crisp fall air by McCook Lake is an unsurprisingly humid experience. Humidity can make it feel warmer and cause frizzy hair, but it may also play a role in hearing aid care. Hearing aids are small but technologically advanced devices worn by approximately 7.1% of adults aged 45 and older. The remarkable…
Accommodating Your Hearing Loss While Job Searching
Beginning a job search with hearing loss can be a nerve-racking experience. Whether you’re just starting the application process or shopping at Sora Boutique for the perfect interview outfit, there are steps you can take along the way to accommodate your hearing loss and ensure a smooth job search journey. Some preparations you choose to…
Common Misconceptions About Hearing Loss
Hearing aids are an incredibly beneficial tool for people with hearing loss, yet only a fraction of the people who need them currently use them. Data shows us that less than 30% of adults 70 and older who could benefit from hearing aids use them, and that number drops to approximately 16% of people between…
How to Choose Safe Headphones to Prevent Hearing Loss
Whether you like to listen to podcasts when taking the bus to work or love listening to music during your jogs through Floyd River Trail, headphones play an essential role in getting to enjoy our favorite media when we’re on the go. However, if you’re a regular headphones user, it’s important to know how to…