How Can Hearing Aids Improve Your Holidays?
The holidays are a wonderful time to gather with loved ones, exchange heartfelt greetings, eat lots of sweets from Belmar Bakery and create lasting memories. However, this festive time of year can come with unique challenges for individuals with hearing loss. Fortunately, hearing aids can play a pivotal role in improving your holiday experience, allowing…
How and Why To Keep Your Hearing Aids Dry
Minimizing moisture damage to your electronic devices, including hearing aids, improves function and longevity. You may have wondered when it’s appropriate to dry your hearing aids and how to do so properly. If you got rained on your last time in Memorial Park, you might consider some of these tactics to dry them out for their…
Identifying and Treating Acoustic Neuromas
Acoustic neuromas, also called vestibular schwannomas, are noncancerous, slow-growing tumors in the ear. Arising when Schwann cells wrap around the vestibular nerve, acoustic neuromas are rarely dangerous but may have adverse side effects. Identifying Acoustic Neuromas and Their Symptoms Many acoustic neuromas do not grow or grow very slowly, but when they push on the…
How Can Hearing Aids Help With Balance?
Hearing aids have a microphone that collects sound, an amplifier that increases its volume and a speaker which transmits the sound directly into your ear canal. The small but technologically advanced devices can help improve communication, keep you more aware of your surroundings, manage tinnitus symptoms and may even help improve your balance. How Are…
How To Adjust the Volume of Your Hearing Aids
Hearing aids are a popular and effective tool for the majority of people with hearing loss. In 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that 7.1% of adults aged 45 and over used a hearing aid. It’s likely that number will only continue to grow. If you are new to hearing aids,…
How To Recycle Used Hearing Aid Batteries
Approximately 7.1% of adults ages 45 and older use a hearing aid, reports the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). If you’re among this population and your hearing aid takes disposable button batteries, you may be wondering what to do with all your used ones. The answer is, you should recycle them. In this…
How to Protect Your Hearing Aids This Spring
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 7.1% of Americans over age 45 wears a hearing aid. If you’re among this population, you may be wondering what you can do to make your hearing aids last as long as possible. Know that they may need a little extra care during the spring…
How Hearing Aids Can Keep You More Connected At Events
Hearing aids are a fantastic tool for people with hearing loss that lets them stay more connected to their loved ones and engage with their communities. However, there are still environments where you may find you struggle, even when using hearing aids. In 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that the…
How to Have the Best Date with Hearing Loss
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders report, “One in eight people in the United States (13 percent, or 30 million) aged 12 years or older has hearing loss in both ears.” If you have hearing loss and you wear hearing aids, you may be wondering how you can make the most out…
Hearing Aids Can Help You Connect With Others This Holiday Season
While the holidays are often associated with joy and togetherness, people with untreated hearing loss may approach the season with apprehension and feelings of loneliness. Hearing Loss and Social Isolation Hearing loss makes it harder to understand speech. It may seem like people are mumbling or that you have to ask others to repeat themselves…
