Hearing loss can affect people of all ages, including teenagers. Recent research highlights the growing concern around hearing loss among teens, often due to exposure to loud noise and the use of personal listening devices. If you have a teenager in your life, here’s what you need to know about hearing loss in teens. The Prevalence of Hearing Loss in Teens The stats are a …
The Sound of Silence: Why You Shouldn’t Ignore Hearing Tests
In a world filled with constant noise pollution and technological bombardment, where our hearing is at risk more than ever, it is imperative that we prioritize and safeguard our hearing health. Join us on an enlightening journey as we delve into the significance of never neglecting hearing tests. Discover how these tests can effectively assess our auditory well-being, identify potential issues, and ensure a lifetime …
Investing in Your Health: Treating Hearing Loss
Treating hearing loss is an investment in your health that is worth making! Treatment offers countless benefits that allow people to live active lifestyles that they can fully participate in. Hearing loss is one of the most common health conditions that people live with today. Impacting nearly 1 in 8 people, impaired hearing is pervasive. But it is at the same time, widely undertreated and …
Hearing Loss Among Millennials & Gen Z
A popular myth about hearing loss is that it only impacts older adults. While aging is one cause of hearing loss, there are other causes that impact people across the age spectrum. This includes Millennials and Gen Z who are increasingly grappling with the realities of hearing loss. In fact, 10% of Millennials and 17% of Gen Z already have some degree of hearing loss. …
Healthy Hearing Habits
Did you know that nearly 1 in 5 people have some degree of hearing loss? Though hearing loss is the third most common medical condition that people live with today, it is widely underrecognized. Over 48 million people have hearing loss which reduces capacity to hear and process speech as well as sound. Hearing loss not only strains hearing and communication but it can take …
All About Tinnitus
Tinnitus is one of the most common symptoms of hearing loss but can also be experienced without hearing loss. It describes hearing a ringing or buzzing like noise in one or both ears that only you can hear. This phantom like noise can be intermittent to constant. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 50 million people experience some degree of tinnitus …
Celebrate World Hearing Day: Ear and Hearing Care for All!
Did you know that March 3rd is World Hearing Day? Organized by the World Health Organization (WHO), this global campaign is all about hearing health. You can celebrate World Hearing Day by practicing the following strategies to protect your hearing health and wellness. Wear hearing protection. Loud noise is a common cause of hearing loss. One time or regular exposure to loud noise can permanently …
Tips for Driving with Hearing Aids
Do you have hearing loss? You may not even realize it, which can become a real hazard not only for us but everyone else on the road. Hearing loss becomes increasingly more common as we age. One in three people over the age of 65 will have hearing loss and by the time we reach 75, hearing loss will affect around half of us. If …
How Our Exercise, Diet, Sleep, and Hearing Affects Our Brain Aging
What Aging Means? What Ages Us? Many of us can remember being a child, say 10 years old, and looking at the 13 year olds climbing the seats at the back of the bus and thinking that they looked basically indistinguishable from the adults. And many of us can remember the shock of reaching milestone ages, turning 18 or 21 or being forced to resolve …
Prioritize Better Hearing in the New Year!
The holidays are a time to celebrate with loved ones. And for many of us that means catching up with family and friends that our busy schedules don’t otherwise allow us much time to see. It is not uncommon and it is not hard to imagine how simple it is for a lot of us to go too far when celebrating. We eat too much …