by Calvert Hearing Care | Oct 15, 2015 | Hearing Test Info
In the US, approximately 37.5 million adults have some degree of hearing loss. Yet according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), only 20 percent of those who could benefit from hearing aids actually use them. That suggests that millions of Americans who could...
by Calvert Hearing Care | Jun 25, 2015 | Hearing Test Info
Most of the time, people are unaware that they have hearing loss. It develops so gradually that it’s usually undetectable, and on top of that, the majority of family physicians do not regularly screen for hearing loss at the annual physical examination. Bearing in...
by Calvert Hearing Care | Apr 19, 2015 | Hearing Test Info
You’ve just completed your hearing test. The hearing specialist is now entering the room and provides you with a chart, like the one above, except that it has all of these characters, colors, and lines. This is intended to highlight to you the exact, mathematically...
by Calvert Hearing Care | Apr 12, 2015 | Hearing Test Info
We don’t need to tell you the signs and symptoms of hearing loss; you already know them all too well. You have a very different kind of challenge: persuading someone you care for to get their hearing screened and treated. But how are you supposed to get through to...
