When you hear the words cancer, war, gun violence, political rants, global warming, you tie all these things with problems that we as humans have …
How Smoking & Drinking May Affect Hearing
Understanding How Hearing Works Your ears are totally developed from the moment you are born. In fact, you are able to respond to sounds before …
When to Get New Hearing Aids
When is it time to get new hearing aids? This question doesn’t have an easy answer. A guideline might help make the decision a little …
Why Pretending to Hear Doesn’t Help
Most people often pretend to hear even when they cannot hear anything or don’t understand what the other person is trying to say. It is …
Ways to Accommodate Your Loved Ones with Hearing Loss
It’s not until our hearing slips away that we understand the importance of it. Many of us have loved ones who are getting closer to …
Going Digital with Your Hearing Aids
Hearing aid performance continues to evolve as technology advances. The original “analog” hearing aids made sound waves larger to amplify them. Hearing aids were visible, …
September is World Alzheimer’s Month
September is World Alzheimer’s Month, which is an international campaign by Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) to raise awareness and challenge the stigma that surrounds dementia. World …
How Hearing Aids Can Change Your Life
People of all ages can be impacted by hearing loss and, in turn, hearing aids are of great benefit to people of all ages. There …
Difficulties with Communication Could Signal a Hearing Loss
If you or a loved one are experiencing hearing loss, you may not know it—but you may have noticed other things that could in fact …
How Treating Hearing Loss Supports Your Brain
Hearing loss impacts several crucial functions of your brain. Your brain reorganizes in order to compensate for hearing loss. When you are experiencing hearing loss (especially when it goes untreated) the other areas of your brain that are devoted to sight or touch can diminish as your brain devotes its energy to the loss of hearing. Your brain can eventually adapt to this new balancing act, ensuring that all of your five senses are working in harmony, but there can also be serious cognitive effects that arise. It is thereby quite important to treat hearing loss in order to maintain and increase healthy brain function.