Eating healthy makes you feel healthy, it’s really that simple. As one of the most important parts of a well-balanced life, a proper diet is even prescribed by doctors to help combat all types of illnesses and conditions like obesity, diabetes, depression, and a variety of other ailments. With this type of endorsement, we’re sure… Continue reading A Healthy Diet Leads to Healthy Hearing
Wondering If Hearing Aids Can Change Your Life? Here’s a User’s Experience With New Hearing Aids
Perhaps you have a hearing loss and are considering hearing aids. You certainly have questions and concerns about using hearing aids, which is normal. If you are pondering what you can expect from using hearing aids, this hearing aid journey describing one user’s personal experience with hearing aids may be of help to you. Social… Continue reading Wondering If Hearing Aids Can Change Your Life? Here’s a User’s Experience With New Hearing Aids
Do I Have Hearing Loss If I Can Hear, But Not Understand?
The process of hearing is not limited to the ears. The brain plays a significant role in the processing and understanding of sound. Understanding involves hearing and focus. It is not just concerned with the effort required to hear a sound, but with the energy needed to process that sound. It is the complex process… Continue reading Do I Have Hearing Loss If I Can Hear, But Not Understand?
How a Healthy Diet Can Cut Your Risk of Hearing Loss
It can help lower your risk of cancer and heart disease. It can boost your mood and help you manage anxiety. It can help prevent cognitive decline and improve memory. It can even help you manage your weight, improve gut health and boost your immune system. Now experts have found that it may also help… Continue reading How a Healthy Diet Can Cut Your Risk of Hearing Loss
Annual Wellness Visits And Hearing Health
The Medicare Annual Wellness Visit (AWV) is a benefit aimed at promoting health through risk-modifying screenings and assessments. The eventual goal of the program is to shift healthcare focus away from acute care while promoting early identification and shared management of health problems. The AWV is an individualized health prevention plan for older adults with… Continue reading Annual Wellness Visits And Hearing Health
Using Music To Support Speech And Language Development In Children With Hearing Loss
Music and language are similar. Music resembles the tempo, pitch, and rhythm of normal speaking patterns. A connection exists between music and the development of speech and language skills in children with hearing impairments. Current evidence should encourage speech therapists, music therapists, music teachers, parents, and children to use music for the development of speech… Continue reading Using Music To Support Speech And Language Development In Children With Hearing Loss
Hearing Aids that REMIND you.
You may already know most hearing aids are Bluetooth compatible, but did you know some can now connect to the internet? The new Oticon OPN platform is an iPhone ready hearing device that also supports “If this then that” technology. IFTTT allows users to create recipes or formulas that notify them when something happens. For… Continue reading Hearing Aids that REMIND you.
Tips to help you work with your medications.
It is very important that your pharmacist is aware of all the things you are taking to effectively manage your risk. Every time you have a new prescription filled, ask your pharmacist what the drug is used for, how and when to take it with other medications, and whether it will interact with other medications.… Continue reading Tips to help you work with your medications.
Giving New Life with Old Hearing Aids
When you?re ready to upgrade to a new hearing device, what on earth do you do with the old, used ones you?ve had for years? Recycle them of course! Through the gift of giving, your old hearing aids can be cleaned and refurbished and given to someone in need. People often go without hearing devices… Continue reading Giving New Life with Old Hearing Aids
New Developments in Hearing Assisted Technology
When we’re out in a crowd waiting for someone, our brain and hearing work together to pick out their voice, even before we can see them walking our way. Parents who take their kids to the playground are super-tuned to their voices as well as their shrieks and giggles and can pick them out of… Continue reading New Developments in Hearing Assisted Technology