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Technology improves quickly: in 2005, the average 40-inch flat screen television would have cost you over $1,500. Today, 10 years later, you can purchase a 40-inch flat screen TV for about $230. The same has taken place with hearing aids, even though it’s more likely to escape our recognition. We notice that TVs become larger,
Hearing loss is commonly called the invisible disability for a reason. No one can view or observe your hearing loss, and no one can feel your difficulty and stress. The only thing someone can experience is their OWN aggravation when they have to constantly repeat themselves. Regretfully, individuals with hearing loss infrequently get the benefit
Oxford Dictionaries defines life-hack as: “A strategy or technique adopted in order to manage one’s time and daily activities in a more efficient way.” Life hacks can help you save both time and money, and some are so easy you’ll wonder why you hadn’t previously thought of them. Creative but straightforward life-hacks include turning your
Congratulations on taking the preliminary step toward healthier hearing by scheduling your hearing test. You’re already ahead of the game, as many people delay getting a hearing test for several years—in some instances decades. But now that you’ve scheduled your hearing test, you’ll want to ensure that you’re prepared for the visit, particularly if test
In the United States, hearing loss to some extent impacts 20 percent of the overall populace, or 48 million individuals. On average, then, one out of every five people you encounter may have hearing loss. For those who genuinely want to understand the condition—or that experience hearing loss themselves and would like some personal perspective—there’s
If you had the opportunity to prevent or decrease the risk of cognitive decline as you grew older, how much would you be willing to pay for it? What would you say to 15 dollars per week? That’s somewhere around the price of a professionally-programmed set of hearing aids, which the most recent research demonstrates
We might take it as a given that our hearing aids are scarcely detectable, can be operated with our smart phones, and can differentiate between speech and background sound. What we might not realize, however, is that those functions are the products of 400 years of experiment, design, and development. Even as early as 5
Envision your life in 2016 with half the stress and double the energy. Who wouldn’t want to have that? Even though virtually everyone aims for better health, it’s not a secret that most health-related New Year’s resolutions fail. We have a tendency to establish resolutions that are too difficult or too complex—all in the name
