The Latest on Cognitive Decline, Listening Effort and Hearing Aids
The prevalence of dementia is expected to soar as the average life expectancy increases, but recent estimates suggest that the age-specific incidence of dementia is declining in high-income countries. In the February 11 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Claudia Satizabal and colleagues report “robust evidence” of dementia’s decline. Using observational data collected…
Improvements to Hearing Technology
Our ability to hear fundamentally shapes how we relate to the world around us. However, hearing is often taken for granted until it is in jeopardy. For those experiencing a loss of hearing, the prognosis is better than ever before. Advances in digital hearing aids have allowed us to treat hearing loss on a more…
Why is there a wide variety of pricing for hearing aids?
People often ask why there is such a wide variety of pricing for hearing aids. One of the main reasons is that every manufacturer has their good, better, best models. Usually those prices are related to the amount and type of features and/or circuitry in the hearing aid. The more expensive the aid, the better…
The Evolution of Hearing Aids
Technological and scientific development over the last few decades has been staggering. In fact, some of the technology today borders on science fiction. We can print a dolphin a new tail using 3D printing, wear watches that don’t need batteries, charge cellphone devices wirelessly, play games in virtual reality, and even drive cars that run…
Why Do Hearing Aids Have Such a Bad Rep?
Everyone remembers our parent’s and our grandparent’s hearing aids. They were big old beige things that filled the ear and seemed to whistle (feedback) all the time. Hearing aid users would constantly complain that all they heard was background noise and not the people they wanted to hear. People waited until they couldn’t put it…