The new year brings with it a time for goal setting and resolutions to carry us through 2025 and beyond. If one of your resolutions this year is to take care of your hearing, you’re in the right place. By 2050, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 2.5...
Are Hearing Tests Necessary When You’re in Your 60s?
The common assumption is that only people in their 70s, 80s, and 90s need hearing tests. While it is true that there is a higher percentage of individuals with hearing loss in that age bracket, individuals much younger are beginning to experience significant hearing...
A Comprehensive Walkthrough of the Different Ways to Treat Your Hearing Loss
There are a multitude of hearing aid dispensers, all working to sell you a solution to address your hearing challenges. With the wide range of price points and special offers, it is quite natural to feel overwhelmed. As hearing loss impacts one in eight Americans, a...
Apple’s Hearing Aid Features Released | Our Initial Impressions
Today, October 28, 2024, Apple released its iOS 18.1 software, which includes the long-anticipated hearing health features. This release has been a long time coming, as we have closely monitored the progress, announcements, and initial rumors over the past nine...
Apple Officially Announces a Hearing Test and Hearing Aid Feature | What This Means
Yesterday (September 9, 2024), Apple held an online event to make a number of announcements about their next generation of iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods. Having shared that Apple was rumored to be launching a 'Hearing Aid Mode' earlier this year, we watched with...
A Comprehensive Walkthrough of the Different Ways to Treat Your Hearing Loss
There are a multitude of hearing aid dispensers, all working to sell you a solution to address your hearing challenges. With the wide range of price points and special offers, it is quite natural to feel overwhelmed. As hearing loss impacts one in eight Americans, a...
The Silent Epidemic: Too Much Noise Could Be Damaging Your Child’s Hearing
Hearing challenges are a problem you only have to deal with when you get old, right? Though hearing loss from age deterioration, known as presbycusis, is the most common form of hearing loss, the second most common is noise-induced hearing loss, which can impact the...
Attention Gentlemen: Excess Ear Hair Can Limit the Performance of Your Hearing Aids
As you age, you’ve probably noticed that there is less hair where it used to be and too much of it where it shouldn’t be. Excess ear hair may not be a comfortable topic, but it is a necessary one, because ear hair can limit the performance of your hearing aids and...
Know Somebody Considering Hearing Loss Treatment? | Stories from Our Patients May Help Inspire Them
Every day, we receive phone calls from people in our area who are worried about their hearing or that of a loved one. They often have questions and concerns, and they’re unsure of what to do. The problem is that many of them don’t have a point of reference related to...
Are You Too Young to Have Hearing Aids?
Hearing loss doesn't discriminate by age—it can affect anyone, from infants to seniors. If you're contemplating whether you're too young for hearing aids, this article is for you.Misconceptions About Hearing Aids There's a common misconception that hearing aids are...