Working with Hearing Loss

Working with Hearing Loss 

Over 40 million people are impacted by hearing loss in the U.S. This chronic condition affects various aspects of life, including job performance. If your hearing is impaired, it is imperative to be aware of your rights at work and ways you can best manage your professional responsibilities. Additionally, there are useful strategies to protect your hearing health from further …

Avoiding Hearing Tests Could Make the Problem Much Worse

Avoiding Hearing Tests Could Make the Problem Much Worse 

Most of us have experienced not immediately dealing with a health concern, hoping that if we avoid it long enough, it will subside. This can be particularly harmful if you are experiencing a chronic medical condition like hearing loss. Because hearing loss often happens gradually, it can be overlooked and ignored for quite some time. Gradual impairment combined with the …

How Treating Hearing Loss Improves Your Relationships

How Treating Hearing Loss Improves Your Relationships 

Effective communication is the foundation for healthy relationships as well as navigating personal and professional responsibilities. Hearing loss, an increasingly common medical condition, can significantly strain communication which impacts all aspects of a person’s life. Impaired hearing is the third most common chronic health issue that adults experience. According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, nearly …

Addressing Hearing Loss May Improve Care of Older Adults

Addressing Hearing Loss May Improve Care of Older Adults

One in three people over 65 and half of all seniors over 75 deal with age related hearing loss, making it the most common cause of this condition. The dangers of untreated hearing loss are a serious concern for seniors.  While depression, self-isolation, and lack of physical activity will affect anyone negatively, seniors with untreated hearing loss particularly struggle with …

Facts & Fictions about Hearing Loss

Facts & Fictions about Hearing Loss

Hearing loss affects at least 466 million people worldwide or 6.1% of the world’s total population. With numbers this high, it is more than likely that you will be put at risk or develop hearing loss at some point in your life.  The more informed you can be on the risks and treatments for hearing loss, the easier it can …

Things People with Hearing Loss Wish You Knew

Things People with Hearing Loss Wish You Knew

Unlike many disabilities that are easy to visually identify, hearing loss is referred to as an invisible disability. Though invisible it is important to be informed about this disability and the best way to accommodate people who struggle with this very common issue. With almost 48 million people in the U.S. alone affected by hearing loss, people’s needs around this …

Talking about Hearing Loss Why Your Disclosure Method Matters

Talking about Hearing Loss: Why Your Disclosure Method Matters

Have you been finding it hard to understand people recently? Do you have to ask people to repeat themselves and have trouble hearing certain pitches? Hearing loss can sneak up on the best of us and can be hard to accept.  One important step in dealing with your hearing loss is accepting you have a problem. Only then can you …

Investing in Your Health Treating Hearing Loss

Investing in Your Health: Treating Hearing Loss

Hearing loss is not rare, especially as you age. It is estimated that hearing loss affects 1 in 3 people over the age of 65 in the US alone. While it may be tempting to think of hearing loss as only an ear issue, this condition, if ignored, can affect so many aspects of your entire health. In the case …

All About Tinnitus

All About Tinnitus

Has a buzzing or ringing in your ears been driving you mad recently? You may look for the source but there doesn’t seem to be anything around causing the noise. Yes, the noise is in your head and no; you are not losing your mind. You are just suffering the effects of tinnitus. What is tinnitus? Tinnitus shows up as …

Veterans and Hearing Loss

Veterans and Hearing Loss

Although hearing loss can affect anyone, particularly seniors, some recently gathered statistics demonstrate that veterans have higher rates of hearing loss than others. These facts about veteran hearing loss may come as no surprise considering those veterans who have served in loud training simulations and actual armed combat. Indeed, hearing loss and its cousin tinnitus are the top two health …