Category — Hearing Aids

If you’re a baby boomer under a lot of stress - you are certainly not alone.

Many baby boomers have reached tremendous levels of success in their careers, but typically this responsibility brings a lot of stress with it. Throw an undiagnosed or uncorrected hearing loss into the equation and get ready for the ulcers.

Many symptoms of a hearing loss result in stressful situations - missing important information and making a bad decision, not being able to hear well in group settings such as conferences, hearing the wrong thing and responding inappropriately, declining social invitations due to embarrassment at not being able to hear, co-workers stop having conversations with you because they become frustrated at having to repeat everything, developing anger at those same co-workers…and the list could go on and on.

With age comes a lower level of tolerance for many people and nothing contributes to those low tolerance levels quite like an undiagnosed hearing loss. When you lose your ability to hear and do not get it corrected with a hearing aid, you begin to lose not only one of your senses, but you lose your sense of who you are.

You no longer have any confidence that you can follow a conversation in a group setting – there goes your social skills.

The dialogue in the movie theater is distorted – there goes your outing to the movies with friends and loved ones.

It’s a beautiful sunny day and you’re driving along, minding your own business when suddenly a car backs out of a driveway right in front of you but you don’t have time to react because your view was blocked by a cube van parked at the curb. You shout to your passenger, “Did you see that? Why didn’t you warn me?”

Your passenger looks at you and you realize that they did warn you but you didn’t hear them.

Maybe you have been slowly losing your hearing or your doctor hasn’t diagnosed your hearing loss yet. In any case, a hearing aid could have prevented this accident or one much worse where someone could have been hurt very badly.

One of the side effects of someone who has a hearing loss and doesn’t get it corrected with a hearing aid is a loss of Self-Esteem.

Imagine you have a hearing loss and you have been guessing and getting it wrong when engaging in conversations.  How long would it take making poor or wrong decisions based on information you thought you heard correctly however you actually didn’t get it right?

How would you feel if someone you’re close to said something to you and because of misunderstanding on your part you felt upset, mad or a deep hurt?  What if people stop having conversations with you because of the effort they have to go thru to get you to understand correctly what they are talking about?  How would that make you feel about them?

 Do you want a life changing experience? 

Well if you have a hearing loss get a hearing aid that can do a good job for your hearing loss and look out.  You and those close to you won’t believe it.

My grandfather who was in his late seventies was one of the first people I fit hearing aids on.  I have fit my father, mother and sister with hearing aids.  I wear hearing aids myself.  I am speaking from my experience with my family and helping thousands of patients.

“I got my life back.” I’ve been told this more times than I can count.

Don’t be skeptical!  Advanced digital hearing aids can provide amazing natural hearing that you will really want to put on every morning. 

To me my family is what life is all about.

I recently returned home because of a death in the family, and I experienced first hand what patients have told me for years.  If someone in your family has a hearing loss and doesn’t get help for their hearing, life in any home can be challenging and unfortunately filled with resentment and hurt feelings.

My Mom is 80 and my father is 85, they lead very active and independent lives.  I believe one of the reasons they act like people in their 60’s is they both wear hearing aids.

When I arrived home I noticed my Mom was not responding to what I was saying in the way I expected.  After a couple of hours I asked her if she was wearing her hearing aids?

How do these things work? Technology in general can be difficult for some mature adults to grasp, and when it comes to hearing aids, even the most savvy person sometimes does’t understand the mechanics behind the device that helps them hear.

All hearing aids have the same basic mechanics, parts, and functions. Styles, colors, sizes and features vary, but the general concept is the same.