There’s a good chance that the last time you had your hearing tested was decades ago. Although many people regularly have their eyes checked and an annual teeth cleaning, our habits around hearing health are less than good. It isn’t even necessarily an aspect of health that people purposely avoid; it’s that no one knows how often they should have …
How a Heart-Healthy Diet Could Support Better Hearing
Hearing loss impacts a staggering number of older Americans, making it one of the leading chronic health conditions in the country. Age continues to be the greatest predictor of hearing loss, because time itself is often the cause for acquired hearing loss. However, there is a growing consensus that addressing some of our lifestyle habits and choices lowers the risk …
How Does Telemedicine Work?
With the cultural shifts currently taking place as a result of the pandemic, telemedicine has recently found itself in an entirely new arena. The Covid-19 pandemic required people to explore new pathways to treatment and at the same time, encouraged various states to relax restrictions relating to telemedicine. The result is that more people than ever have chosen to remotely …
Seeking Hearing Loss Treatment Could Help Prevent or Delay Dementia
Dementia is a condition without a known cure, as of yet. Researchers are working tirelessly to discover the possibilities for preventing, slowing, stopping, or even reversing dementia, but no success has been established with total effectiveness. Part of the problem has to do with fragmented understanding of the causes of dementia. Although researchers have not been able to discover a …
Facts & Fictions about Hearing Loss
Myths about hearing loss are prevalent and need to be debunked. Hearing loss has become the fastest growing health concern in the US. When we think of our hearing, we don’t seem to incorporate it into our overall health program as one would when it comes to the health of our heart or eyesight or blood pressure. In order to …
May is Better Hearing and Speech Month!
May is the month designated by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) to promote the attention to the continual nurturing, protection and sustenance of our hearing from birth to our later years. Better Hearing and Speech Month is honored with a theme every year, and this May 2019, the theme is “Communication Across the Lifespan.” The main goal of Better Hearing …
The Benefits of Treating Hearing Loss
The latest figures by the World Health Organization suggest that nearly 50 million Americans currently suffer from hearing loss, making it the third most common health condition in the United States after heart disease and arthritis. According to The Hearing Health Foundation, there are more Americans living with hearing loss than those living with Parkinson’s, Epilepsy, Alzheimer’s, and Diabetes combined. …
Celebrate World Hearing Day on March 3 by Checking Your Hearing!
World Hearing Day is soon approaching on March 3rd. The World Health Organization (WHO) first introduced World Hearing day back in 2007 as a global campaign on ear and hearing care that calls for action to address hearing loss. Each year the campaign has a different theme and 2019’s theme is Check You Hearing. This year WHO will draw attention …