Tips For Caring For Your Hearing Aids This Summer
The sun is out, school is winding down, and summer is right around the corner. This means plenty of outdoor fun, like heading to the beach or playing frisbee at Thousand Oaks Community Park. While summer is full of fun and adventure, you may have to give your hearing aids a bit more love and…
How to Recycle Used Hearing Aid Batteries
“In 2019, 7.1% of adults aged 45 and over used a hearing aid,” reports the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. If you’re among the population who wears hearing aids and yours take disposable button batteries, as most do, it’s important to know what to do with the used ones. The experts at strongly recommend…
How To Clean Earwax Off Your Hearing Aids
Earwax helps protect our ear canal and actually assists in cleaning and lubricating the ear. However, too much earwax can cause problems for both your ears and your hearing aids. How Earwax Can Damage Your Hearing Aids Earwax buildup is one of the most common reasons people come in to have their hearing aids repaired….
How to Make the Most of a Hotel Stay with Hearing Loss
Are you making travel plans this spring? If so, you may be planning to book a hotel room. If you’re one of the 7.1% of adults ages 45 and older who use a hearing aid, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, you may want to take extra measures to make the most…
Here’s How Hearing Aids Can Improve Your Love Life
Though making the investment in hearing aids is a personal choice, the benefits don’t just affect you—they affect your partner as well. One study reports, “Before the provision of a hearing aid significant others experienced difficulties with person-to-person conversation, with group conversation and in viewing (listening to) television of the same order as did the…
Why You Should Treat Your Hearing Loss with Hearing Aids This Year
Despite how common hearing loss is, only one in five people who could benefit from hearing aids actually wears them
Solutions for Common Hearing Aid Side Effects
Hearing aids are complex medical devices that enable you to hear well even in the most complex listening environments, like Lazy Dog Restaurant on Hillcrest Drive. According to a 2019 study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, “Although a large number of adults with hearing loss who use hearing aids experience…
Surprising Features of Hearing Aids
Even though hearing aids are the gold standard treatment for most cases of hearing loss, only about one in five people who could benefit from a hearing aid actually wears one, reports the Hearing Loss Association of America. This may be in part because many people think of the clunky devices their parents or grandparents…
Highlighting Hearing Loss for Audiology Awareness Month
October is Audiology Awareness Month. In honor of that, we’d like to discuss some key facts about hearing loss as well as what you can do to protect your hearing. Five Facts About Hearing Loss Hearing loss risk increases with age. The older you get, the more likely you are to experience hearing loss. According…
Essential Daily Habits for Those Who Wear Hearing Aids
If you are new to hearing aids, it can be helpful to find ways to get into a good daily routine so that you adjust quickly and get the most out of them. Wear Your Hearing Aid Consistently Though this may seem like an obvious tip, some hearing aid users only wear their device intermittently…