Why Choose Custom Hearing Aids?
If patients don’t want to wear obvious hearing devices because of perceived stigma, let’s give them the option they do want.
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OTC Hearing Aids: Access, Affordability, and Advancements
The availability of OTC hearing aids caused changes in the hearing health landscape, including wider awareness and acceptance.
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Starkey Livio Edge AI Wins ‘Good Design’ Award
Starkey announced that Livio Edge AI has won a Good Design Award. Good Design represents the world’s critical mass of the design and manufacturing industry, representing “the best consumer design ranging from electronics to transportation.”
Signia’s ‘Hear Across America’ Initiative Aims to Provide Hearing Loss Awareness
Throughout the month of May, select Signia-affiliated hearing care professionals nationwide will provide free hearing screenings and education to members of their local communities.
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The Impact of Unilateral Hearing Loss on Adult Life
There is a need to improve awareness and to better understand the impact and struggles of people who have unilateral hearing loss (UHL), the professionals who treat them, and those who work, live, and socialize with them. With better awareness comes better understanding, so health professionals can refer them rather than dismiss them. Moreover, better understanding can fuel motivation and allow the person with UHL to be more proactive about managing the condition while reducing anxiety.
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New Study Examines Inequality in Treatment for Hearing Loss
In fact, the study finds that the only factor that leveled the playing field for hearing aid use was having insurance through the Department of Veterans Affairs, which covers hearing aids in many cases.
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Notes from CES 2018: What Lies Ahead?
As technology expands in all directions, we should be thinking of the future and how things may change for hearing aids—and at the same time, recognize that some things will likely never change. Viewing the CES exhibits focused me on the future and made me wonder what we have to look forward to with hearing aids in the near future, say in 2020 (Y2.02K).
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Open Letter to OTC Hearing Device Regulators
Now that the political hay has been harvested, the real business of affordable and accessible hearing care is on the table and at your mercy.
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Blog: The “Hearing Aid Effect” and Getting Past the “Giant Shrimp”
Maybe it’s time to move on and address stigma only when it’s apparent a prospective client is looking at the hearing aid as if it’s a giant shrimp.
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Is Hearing Aid Stigma Dead Among Younger People?
Results from a study published in the October JAAA indicate that the so-called “hearing aid effect” has diminished, if not completely disappeared, in the 21st century.
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