Explore the transition to OTC hearing aids and its impact on audiologists. This guide offers insights into leveraging new opportunities for enhanced patient care and clinic growth in the OTC landscape.
A new paper from a group of private-practice audiologists explores how the future of hearing healthcare depends upon recognizing and serving patients from a whole-person perspective—moving away from the narrow view of addressing hearing loss through amplification only, to becoming "hearing loss mitigation counselors" and treating the needs of the individual.
A lot of the findings reinforce what we already know through direct observation: hearing health is an extremely important facet of general health.
A look at seven chronic conditions associated with hearing loss—ranging from depression to diabetes—along with a review of some of the key supporting scientific evidence and papers.
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A new case study published by the LeadingAge Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST)—a coalition of 400 technology companies, businesses, and aging service organizations, that are focused on technology to transform the aging experience—reveals that residents in senior living communities who use captioned telephones are less likely to experience the adverse effects of loneliness.
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Many recent studies have linked hearing loss to disabling conditions, such as cognitive decline, depression, diabetes, falls, heart disease, and many more. This webinar—presented by Harvey Abrams, PhD, and sponsored by Hamilton CapTel—reviews several of the most eye-opening of these studies and summarizes their findings so that hearing care professionals can use them for better patient counseling—as well as to help educate doctors and primary care physicians for more patient referrals.
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Consumers are invited to HLAA2017, a communication-accessible educational program and trade show for people with hearing loss, hosted by the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA), the organization announced.
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The Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA)—an organization dedicated to educating, advocating, and supporting individuals with hearing loss—is thrilled to announce its 20 Walk4Hearing events across the nation this year, including two new locations in Buffalo, NY and Louisville, KY.
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An estimated 6,000 audiologists, hearing healthcare providers, and audiology students will meet at AudiologyNOW!, the annual conference of the American Academy of Audiology (AAA), held from April 5–8, 2017, at the Indiana Convention Center and Lucas Oil Stadium.
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Hamilton CapTel for Business and Tenacity have released a new captioned telephone for business professionals who have difficulty hearing over the phone–employees can listen while reading word-for-word captions on their office phone via existing network.
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At IHS 2016, Hamilton® CapTel® is unveiling the new Hamilton CapTel Noah Module, software designed to optimize convenience for audiologists, making it easier to provide captioned telephones at no cost to patients with hearing loss.
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Hamilton Relay, a provider of Telecom Relay and Captioned Telephone Service to 18 US states and the District of Columbia, has announced that it will continue to be the provider of California Relay Service.
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