You may say hearing aids are expensive and you can’t afford them just now. It’s true that hearing aids, usually are not covered by either Medicare or private health plans. Hearing aids allow you to hear, listen to conversations, interact with people, and possibly even hold a job. It is a basic necessity, more important to your well-being than that cup of coffee you have every day.
Hearing aids help improve social, emotional, psychological, and physical well-being of hearing impaired people, regardless of whether their hearing loss is mild or severe. Hearing aids improve your overall quality of life. They can also boost your earning power and job security. Good hearing can give you an edge in the job market.
“Unaddressed hearing loss has a negative impact on overall
job effectiveness, opportunity for promotion, and even lifelong earning power,”
says Sergei Kochkin PhD, BHI’s executive director. “Now, more than ever, people in the workforce need to put their
best foot forward and address untreated hearing loss.”
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication
Disorders (NIDCD) reports one in ten persons has hearing loss – one in three
over age 65. BHI estimates that there
are currently more than 24 million people in the United States who have an
untreated hearing loss – meaning they have not sought help from hearing
aids. Are you one of them? If you are, don’t wait any longer before
getting hearing aids.