The Impact of Hearing Loss on Your Health
Evidence is mounting that shows that getting hearing aids not only helps you hear better, but it also keeps you emotionally and even physically healthier.
An article by Kochkin and Rogin (Jan 2000) reviews a large-scale survey that shows that hearing aid usage is positively related to the following life issues:
- Improved interpersonal relationships
- Higher satisfaction with life
- Reduction in the incidence of depression and anxiety
- Reduction in anger, frustration and paranoid feelings
- Enhanced emotional stability
- Improved belief that one is in control of one’s life
- Reduced self-criticism
- Improved health status and reduced incidence of pain
If you have a close family member who is having difficulties due to hearing loss, there are some things you can do to gently nudge them in the right direction of receiving hearing aid assistance:
- Suggest it would be a good idea for the person to at least become informed about his/her hearing status. Affirm that the person is ultimately in charge of any decisions after finding out if there is a hearing problem.
- If someone in your family has a hearing impairment, it’s important not to be an “enabler,” by helping every time the person has difficulty hearing. If the person constantly relies on your help, she or he may not see the hearing problem as it really is and may therefore not bother to do anything about it.
- Some people feel there’s a stigma about wearing a hearing aid. Go to the website www.betterhearing.org and show the person all the well-known personalities who have sought help for their hearing. In addition, there is a great deal of valuable information on that website.
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