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Spring Cleaning Tips for People With Hearing Loss
With spring cleaning time just around the corner, you may find yourself looking for places in your life that could use a little tidying up. While you’re putting “clean out the refrigerator” and “donate old…
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Hearing Loss in Your City
Living in San Francisco, residents are exposed to the noises of a bustling city each day. In most cities, noise is a constant companion. The urban soundscape can have a significant impact on your hearing…
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Can Hearing Aids Help You Build Friendships?
Hearing loss can make it difficult to connect and build meaningful relationships with those around you. If you feel hearing loss is affecting your ability to enjoy a healthy social circle, hearing aids may be…
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Make 2024 the Year of Hearing Protection
In a world filled with action-packed movies, concerts, heavy machinery and sound-blaring headphones, it’s all too easy to damage your hearing. You rely on your hearing to enjoy your favorite music, hear the specials at…
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What to Know About Speechreading
Speechreading is a useful tactic that allows those differing levels of hearing loss to follow conversations; it’s also known as lip reading. Those who use speechreading often use other context clues to understand conversations, including…
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How Hearing Aids Can Enhance Your Game Nights
Game nights are a time for fun, laughter and friendly competition. Whether it’s board games, card games or video games, these gatherings bring people together for memorable moments. However, for those with hearing loss, game…
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How Can Hearing Aids Help On Your Next Move?
About 28.8 million adults could benefit from using hearing aids. Hearing aids improve overall quality of life and provide many added health benefits past just improving your ability to hear. Hearing is integral for maintaining…
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How Can You Prepare Your Kids for Attending School With Hearing Loss?
According to the Centers for Disease Control, 14.9% of children ages six to 19 have low or high-frequency hearing loss of at least 16 decibels. Sending your kids with hearing loss to school for the…
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What Is Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease?
Autoimmune diseases are when your body’s immune system mistakenly attacks normal or healthy cells. Autoimmune inner ear disease, or AIED, is when the body mistakes normal cells for virus or bacteria cells in the ear…
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New Study Finds Hearing Aids Can Slow Cognitive Decline in Older Adults
According to a recent clinical trial, when older adults with risk factors for cognitive decline wore hearing aids over three years, they slowed their loss of thinking and memory abilities by 48%.1 Study Details The…
