How can hearing aids help?

A hearing loss can have a significant impact on a person’s quality of life as well as those of friends and family. It may affect someone’s ability to participate in meetings at work, take phone calls, enjoy social events, shows and more. Understandably, this can affect us emotionally; we may start to feel frustrated with everyday tasks and those around us and in turn begin to feel less confident and become more withdrawn. In short, a hearing loss can cause someone to lose connection with the things that are important in their life.

Modern digital hearing aids are now very sophisticated devices. A hearing aid can be programmed to amplify the specific sounds that an individual cannot naturally access due to their hearing loss. This will help “fill in” those missing pieces of the puzzle and improve the user’s ability to detect and understand speech. Typical benefits of wearing a hearing aid can be:

• improved ability to engage with people socially. This is likely to encourage an individual to continue to socialise and maintain relationships
• a hearing aid user is usually recognised by family as having better cognitive functioning than a non-user and to be less withdrawn
• greater self-confidence and independence than non-hearing aid users
• better performance in the work environment and therefore less likelihood of reduced income
• lower risk of cognitive decline and development of dementia

Available technologies and features:

• A wide range of hearing aid powers and styles to suit all types of hearing loss and lifestyle
• Industry leading sound processing giving best possible results for listening in challenging environments
• Invisible custom-made hearing aids for absolute discretion
• Rechargeable behind-the-ear and in-the-ear options
• Wireless streaming to smartphone devices allowing for effortless streaming of phone calls, music as well as hearing aid adjustments through the hearing aid phone app
• Tracking of physical and cognitive activities for those who wish to monitor and improve their health
• Language translation through a user’s hearing aids and on their smartphone screen
• Remote hearing aid programming – users can send requests to their hearing aid audiologist using their smartphone app and receive hearing aid adjustments without needing a face-to-face appointment
• Industry leading processing of music as well as wind and machine noise reduction
• Hearing aid technologies for tinnitus relief and single-sided hearing loss