The holiday season is a time to get together with family and celebrate. It’s also a great opportunity to check in on members of the family we don’t see very often. Needless to say, this is also a perfect opportunity to keep an eye out for the classic signs of hearing loss. The statistics are […]
Hearing Loss and Childhood Development: What You Need to Know
Most of the time, when you mention the phrase “hearing loss”, people tend to imagine an older person. After all, as a person gets to be 65, the odds of having some hearing loss are 1 in 3, and they increase to 1 in 2 above 75 years of age. However, there’s a more insidious […]
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New Integrations on the Horizon for Hearing Aids and Smartphones
For most of their history, hearing aids have been decidedly low-tech devices, consisting of a basic microphone that amplified the sounds around it and projected these sounds into the ear. These days, things are a little different. Now, hearing devices have all kinds of integrations with the smartphones we already use all day long. Typical […]
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October is Audiology Awareness Month
Did you know that October is National Audiology Awareness month? It’s great to be an audiologist at a time when we’ve got all these initiatives that help educate the public on the importance of hearing health. Over 36 million Americans have hearing loss—and despite what many people assume, more than half are under the age […]
The Benefits of a Healthy Diet On Your Hearing Health
For a long time, hearing health and hearing loss have been viewed as straightforward issues: avoid regular exposure to loud noises to save your hearing, and when hearing loss does occur, such as in advanced age, treat it with the use of hearing aids that amplify the sound around the patient. But what if there […]
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Medicare Patients: You May Soon Have More Options for Funding Your Hearing Health
Considering the correlation between aging and hearing loss, it’s a truly unfortunate case that hearing exams and devices are not covered by the Medicare coverage so many older people rely on. Thankfully, hearing health has recently gained more prominence in the public’s eye, and some government officials are beginning to get the picture. With Medicare […]
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The Chicken or the Egg: Hearing Loss and Health Problems in Older Age
Is hearing health a quality of life issue, or a fundamental health issue? For a long time, hearing health has been thought of by the public as a “nice to have” rather than a “must have”. Now, a series of studies are showing that hearing health affects more than just being able to carry on […]
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Does Your Loved One Have Hearing Aids He or She Doesn’t Wear?
If you have a parent who has hearing loss, you know that it can be a battle just to get them to acknowledge the issue, then come in for a hearing test, and then get fitted for hearing aids. Once that’s done, you might think you’re out of the woods and your job as a […]
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New Products We (and Our Patients) Are Excited About
The technology of hearing devices is always evolving. All along, it’s making these devices more effective, easier to use, and more convenient to wear. Here are a few of the features that our customers are loving right now: Rechargeable hearing aids — these have been around for a while in one form or another, but […]
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What the “Laurel” vs “Yanni” Debate Can Teach Us About Hearing Health and Taking Care of Patients
While we at Chicago Hearing Services love to geek out over hearing health, we realize that that’s (unfortunately) not common for the rest of the world. That’s why it was so exciting to see hearing enter the pubic conversation with the recent “laurel” vs “yanni” debate. First, some background on how this all started: A […]
