The historical and often hysterical stigma attached to deafness and hearing loss may work as a deterrent that puts people off getting their hearing checked.
The Stigma of Wearing Hearing AidsMost Hearing loss is acquired through recreational and workplace noise, illness, medications and as part of the process of ageing. Sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL), commonly known as sudden deafness, is an unexplained, rapid loss of hearing either all at once or over a few days.
Sudden DeafnessIf you are not cleaning and maintaining your hearing aid daily, the microphone ports will get blocked with wax and so will your wax management system at the speaker end.
Cleaning and Maintaining Hearing AidsIf you have a hearing loss in both ears the simple answer is two hearing aids. Why? Because that is how your brain is designed to work at its optimal best as explained in this article.
One Hearing Aid or Two?It is now understood that chronic ear disease and the resulting deafness is a major cause of social disadvantage. If a child can't hear it is difficult to learn, it's difficult to gain an education or a job.
Childrens Hearing Linked to Social DisadvantageHearing loss is independently associated with incidental-cause dementia. Whether hearing loss is a marker for early-stage dementia or is actually a modifiable risk factor for dementia deserves further study.
Hearing Loss and DementiaNot everyone pops in a hearing aid and trots off into the sunlight with perfect hearing.
Myth: Hearing Aids do not workHearing loss can have a dramatic effect on your employment prospects.
Hearing and your work prospectsOnly one or two children in every 1,000 have significant permanent hearing loss.
Hearing and your baby