Hearing Health Blog
Why do older people complain about difficulty hearing conversations, especially in noisy situations? Usually starting in our 40s, we often begin to notice problems understanding speech, especially in background noise. And, these problems usually increase gradually over the years. It should be noted, however, that people of any age have more difficulty understanding speech (by focusing attention, understanding and remembering)
Why do older people complain about difficulty hearing conversations, especially in noisy situations? Usually starting in our 40s, we often begin to notice problems understanding speech, especially in background noise. These problems usually increase gradually over the years before a clinically significant hearing loss is identified (on an audiogram). However, people of any age have more difficulty focusing attention, understanding
Should you wear your hearing aids all the time? The answer is YES! And here’s why. Human hearing is very complex. It involves many different areas of the brain (e.g., there are different areas for music processing vs. language processing). When we have normal hearing, our ears capture the sound, transforms it, it gets encoded and is sent to the