Category — Effects of hearing loss

Hearing loss can affect your life in many ways. Affects can range from simple misunderstandings to full withdrawal from family and friends and major depression. Some people might say hearing loss is just one of those things you have to deal with as you age. Dealing with hearing loss, without professional medical assistance, can lead to many major problems in life with relationships and social situations.  Read more... (479 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

The intimacy of love making for couples often depends on one or the other picking up on romantic cues or intimate conversation. Modern digital hearing aids can often provide patients with hearing loss the means to once again catch the signals their partner is trying to offer to show they are interested in being intimate.

Hearing loss can often interfere with something as simple for couples as listening to their favorite music together. Diagnosis and treatment of hearing loss can often make relationships more intimate and bring back the spark of romance in any relationship.  Read more... (242 words, estimated 58 secs reading time)

The ability to understand simple speech and conversation is one of the first things that is lost with the onset of hearing loss. This lack of the ability to understand speech can be a significant road block to intimate, close conversation.

It does not take very long for a spouse to become irritable and distant when they lose the ability to speak to their significant other without shouting across the dinner table at the fancy restaurant. Hearing aids can definitely lessen the irritation caused by having to shout or constantly repeat what has already been spoken.  Read more... (250 words, estimated 1:00 mins reading time)

According to research by the Better Hearing Institute, one in five adults aged 41-59 and one in fourteen adults aged 29-40 experience some form of hearing loss. The study also indicated only one in four of these patients utilizes hearing aids to treat their hearing loss.

One might find it hard to believe even mild to moderate hearing loss could be affecting their love life. Hearing loss could affect someone’s relationship even more than Erectile Dysfunction Disorder or other medical conditions.

Any professional therapist or psychologist will offer simple advice for improving a relationship. The key to a healthy love life is effective and frequent communication.  Read more... (231 words, estimated 55 secs reading time)

Brandeis University researchers have discovered older adults with mild to moderate hearing loss can lose their ability to remember words and language.

Studies have shown, even when adults retain any amount of the ability to hear words and repeat them, older adults’ ability to remember the words they have heard is diminished if they are experiencing hearing loss.

Neuroscience professor Arthur Wingfield has advised, “The study is a wake-up call to anyone who works with older people, including healthcare professionals, to be especially sensitive to how hearing loss can affect cognitive function.”

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There has been a possible link between hearing loss and memory loss identified in older adults.

Conversation becomes difficult when a patient is experiencing hearing loss, a condition which is often met with denial by the patient.  The patient may not realize that this undiagnosed hearing loss is affecting their memory.

Many older adults experience some form of mild to moderate hearing loss as their bodies age and all senses diminish.  Those with normal hearing may not understand the effect hearing loss has on someone’s ability to effectively remember.

When cognitive functions in older people are diverted from memory to hearing, simple language functions can suffer.  Read more... (178 words, estimated 43 secs reading time)

It is human nature to think we are right about what we’ve learned throughout our lives and right about the way our bodies are supposed to function.  Those lucky people that have never had a medical problem, never been diagnosed with a serious medical condition or never had so much as the common cold have an extraordinarily hard time understanding what is happening when their hearing begins to fail.  Their declining ability to hear clearly is in direct opposition of the person’s fundamental view of how their body should function.  This need to be right is one of the most challenging issues facing loved ones of someone with hearing loss.  Read more... (383 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

One symptom of denial and avoidance is blame. Hearing loss patients may begin to blame themselves for their declining hearing. They may also blame others by accusing them of whispering or mumbling. Patients who blame themselves may become angry that their bodies are not functioning as well as they used to. Patients who blame others, or accuse them of mumbling or whispering, may turn this blame on their spouses and children first. Often, with mild to moderate hearing loss, the ability to hear the pitch of women’s and children’s voices is the first to be lost.  Read more... (376 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Confidence is key to working relationships, both personal and business relationships.  When some patients begin to experience hearing loss, they are often not sure of what is happening to them.  Other patients know they are experiencing a problem with their hearing but are in denial of the situation.  This denial can last for days, weeks, months or even years before the patient seeks assistance from a hearing professional.  This delay in diagnosis and treatment can cause hearing loss to worsen significantly and can affect the patient’s confidence and personal relationships.  Read more... (348 words, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

Hearing loss is experienced by millions of people and has many causes.  Some hearing loss is experienced as people grow older, some cases are caused by excessive noise and some are caused by congenital defects in infants.  Regardless of the cause, or the person hearing loss affects, stress can be experienced and affect overall health.  Being stressed out constantly by the effects of undiagnosed hearing loss can cause fatigue and, in turn, can cause stress on relationships.  The levels of stress associated with hearing loss can also have detrimental effects of a hearing loss patient’s general sense of well being.  Read more... (374 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)