Protect Your Hearing Aids This Summer
When you get a new pair of hearing aids, your audiologist will tell you how to keep them in good working order. During summer, there’s a little more you need to know in order to protect them while participating in your favorite summertime activities. We provide these tips below. Water Most hearing aids have some…
How to Care for Your Hearing Aid Batteries
When you get a new pair of hearing aids, your audiologist will walk you through how to turn them on and off, insert and remove them, and change the batteries. It’s also important to pay close attention when they tell you how to care for your batteries to ensure they work well and to avoid…
What to Look for in a Hearing Aid
If you’ve visited an audiologist for a hearing test and found out you have hearing loss, the next step is to select a hearing aid. Hearing aids connect you to the world around you, making it easier to hear your partner when dining out and enjoy the music at the Charleston Symphony. Today’s hearing aids…
Hearing Aids Can Help Improve Listening Fatigue
Most people are familiar with that feeling of exhaustion after leaving a party or ending a Zoom call, but many are unfamiliar with what the feeling is called. Audiologists refer to it as listening fatigue, and while it can affect anyone, people with hearing loss are most familiar with it. Fortunately, wearing hearing aids can…
Caring for Your Hearing Aids
Your hearing aids represent a significant investment in terms of both financial cost and the amount of time you spent with your audiologist identifying your exact type and degree of hearing loss, selecting the best device for your needs and getting the programming just right. Because of this, you’ll want to take good care of…
How to Adjust to Your Hearing Aids
Hearing aids are the preferred treatment for most of the 48 million Americans who have hearing loss. Today’s devices are amazing in their ability to provide amplification only of sounds you want to hear, connect to Bluetooth devices and automatically adjust their settings based on your environment. But even the most top-of-the-line devices require some…
Hearing Aids Can Lower Chance of Depression, Dementia & Falls
Hearing loss is a common condition, affecting an estimated 48 million Americans. However, only about one in five people who could benefit from treatment for their hearing loss actually wears hearing aids. Hearing aids have many benefits, like improving your communication and, in turn, your relationships with loved ones. But did you know hearing aids…
What to Know About Artificial Intelligence in Hearing Aids
When you think of artificial intelligence (AI), what comes to mind? For many, it’s a scene from a sci-fi movie, or a robot from the University of South Carolina robotics department coming to life. But in reality, we already see various forms of AI in our daily life – including in hearing aids. What Is…
How Long Do Hearing Aids Last?
Hearing aids represent a significant investment in both time and money, so you’ll want to get the most out of them that you possibly can. On average, hearing aids last between three and seven years, but there are many factors that play into the duration of their lifespan. We review some of these factors below…
What Type of Hearing Aid Should You Choose?
Hearing aids are an important investment in your health, relationships and quality of life. In order to get the most benefit possible from your devices, you want to find ones that suit your hearing, financial and lifestyle needs. While the process may seem overwhelming at first, your audiologist will work with you every step of…