Hearing SELF Evaluation TESTS
Do you miss parts of conversations or always ask to have the television made louder? Have you been told by a loved one or friend that you need to have your hearing tested? If you are approaching 60 or older, you may benefit from a hearing evaluation. Please feel free to take our short HEARING SELF TEST to determine if like many others, you would benefit from a comprehensive and complimentary hearing evaluation.
The Right Hearing Aid for Every Lifestyle
Our practice only carries the highest quality of hearing aid available in the industry today. Our goal is to evaluate our patient's needs and fit them with the best product that will address their life style situations. Our practice offers convenient payment options as well as patient finance provided by Care Credit.
You should have your hearing checked if you:
- Have to strain to hear normal conversations or watch faces to follow what people say
- Frequently ask people to repeat themselves
- Have difficulty understanding women, young children or people with high pitched voices
- Hearing ringing or other noises in your ear
- Turn up the TV or radio excessively to hear them clearly
- Have trouble identifying where sounds are coming from
Hearing Loss
Today over 30 million senior Americans (over the age of 60) and perhaps an equal number of Baby Boomers suffer from hearing loss. Hearing loss is one of the most common chronic health care problems facing older adults today. Recent studies have shown that up to 50% of the Baby Boomer population is experiencing significant hearing loss as much as 20 years earlier than previous generations.
Hearing loss can result from many different causes such as exposure to loud noise, an inherited condition, injury or infection and physical changes within the ear caused by aging. It usually develops slowly over many years, so you may not realize that your hearing has gotten worse.
Similar to age related vision loss due to cataracts, today there is no reason to miss out on any experiences both visual and hearing that can enhance your quality of life. Hearing can start to degrade beginning in our early 30’s. Today, it is recommended that the youth of America listen to music from portable devices no more than 45 minutes a day. Consider the rock n’ roll concerts, records and sounds we heard decades ago. It happens for everyone, the challenge is recognizing that there is a solution to hearing loss. With the advent of digital technology, the hearing aid technology has made significant advances in the past decade. What was once considered a true sign of aging due to bulk and inconvenience, hearing aids are now created in several shapes, sizes and configurations that best suit the patients needs. The first step though is recognizing the need, realizing that a loss of hearing at whatever level means you are missing out.
It is the intent of our medical practice to provide complimentary hearing evaluations for all our patients 65 and older so they can understand the affects of hearing loss and what options are available to hear what you may be missing.
