Most older adults choose not to use hearing aids.
These few often don't wear glasses and they don't use hearing aids.
There is reason to believe, however, that they use hearing to locate their prey.
This does not mean that you should not use hearing aids.
I use hearing aids, but still have great difficulty hearing conversation in restaurants and in large group settings.
Perhaps they should, if only to share experiences with the deaf who do not or cannot use hearing technology.
What's already well established is that people who use hearing aids realize benefits, including improved ability to understand what other people are saying, communicate and negotiate social situations.
Good thing, as hearing loss has also been linked to short-term memory loss, fatigue, anxiety, depression, even lower income — on average, up to $12,000 a year less than for their counterparts who use hearing aids, Dr. Kochkin said.
Four years later, when I was asked to do the poster for the first night of the Factory club, I noticed an industrial warning sign on a workshop door at art college: "Use hearing protection".
Aside from communication problems (I use hearing aids), I have much better use for my time -- especially given a constant awareness of how little time remains when one has passed the age of 90!
There are 10 standards to be met, which broadly cover communication and safety, such as having induction loops which are in working order for people who use hearing aids, or providing access to interpreters where necessary.
