Something must be done about this!!

Good link.

Not very surprising if you think about what many people put their bodies through. If you live in a city you are constantly assaulted by noise. There is very little letup. If it's not cars or television, movies, people, or headphones it's machinery. Fridge, oven, dishwasher, compactors, even lights can produce noise. Then we have health considerations that I'm sure affect our hearing. All the chemicals that we wring through ourselves, dust, foreign material that is bound to be corrosive to sensitive tissues.
I'm sure a whole long list is out there of things that affect our hearing every day, so by the time we're 40 or 50 who knows what we'll be able to hear?
 
Um, hardly a surprise. It's pretty normal for a senior to lose some of its hearing. Some will get a hearing aid, some will refuse to. That's life.
 
My mom sometimes has selective hearing. How can that be addressed?
 
S0rceress0 said:
Good link.

Not very surprising if you think about what many people put their bodies through. If you live in a city you are constantly assaulted by noise. There is very little letup. If it's not cars or television, movies, people, or headphones it's machinery. Fridge, oven, dishwasher, compactors, even lights can produce noise. Then we have health considerations that I'm sure affect our hearing. All the chemicals that we wring through ourselves, dust, foreign material that is bound to be corrosive to sensitive tissues.
I'm sure a whole long list is out there of things that affect our hearing every day, so by the time we're 40 or 50 who knows what we'll be able to hear?
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Oh My GOD I can't stand my all my appliances beeping at me all the time! The microwave is horrible is beep 3 times before it shut up! And the last beep is longer! I also hate when you dial a phone # wrong you get a horrible sound ! With a HA on and extra loud phone it sound a fog horn going off!
 
Banjo said:
Um, hardly a surprise. It's pretty normal for a senior to lose some of its hearing. Some will get a hearing aid, some will refuse to. That's life.
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You calling me an "it"? :lol:
 
My dad goes out to lunch every day with his friends. He is 65 and the only one out of a 11 person group that doesnt have a hearing aid. When my ex was working as a deaf advocate she was hoping maybe some of the old men would want to become clients but they dont want to be in deaf culture just need hearing aids to amplify is all.

With annoying things that make sound like microwave or kids toys I cover speaker part with clear packing tape and it muffles sound. Sound is still there but much less annoying.
 
Yeah, we should do something about this.... sign them up for ASL classes.
 
Buffalo said:
Yeah, we should do something about this.... sign them up for ASL classes.
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I would volunteer to teach them. But I love the idea of a basket of hearing aids, and I could take them around my class and hand one out to each pupil! :wave:
 
S0rceress0 said:
Tell her you're pregnant.
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:laugh2: :laugh2:....well...Glen stated his mother had "selective hearing"....my guess is that she "hears what she wants to hear"?....A lot of women are that way....:giggle:....Since I'm profound deaf myself...if someone is talking to me and I don't care to "listen" or "see"...I just close my eyes, (bad habit of mine).

A lot of elderly people are reluctant to admit having hearing loss. It's quite frustrating for the family having to deal with it....
 
rockin'robin said:
:laugh2: :laugh2:....well...Glen stated his mother had "selective hearing"....my guess is that she "hears what she wants to hear"?....A lot of women are that way....:giggle:....Since I'm profound deaf myself...if someone is talking to me and I don't care to "listen" or "see"...I just close my eyes, (bad habit of mine).

A lot of elderly people are reluctant to admit having hearing loss. It's quite frustrating for the family having to deal with it.....
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That is true and to think that having the disability like deafness, blindness, Down Syndrome and handicapped is like a death in the family. They have got to learn to face reality to think positive. Nothing to be ashame of. :eek3:

My mother refused to try hearing aid when she was having problem with her hearing loss. I really don't know why the big deal she refused to do with the hearing aid anyway. I was forced to wear hearing aid and I don't like it but I still wear one on my left ear just for environment sounds. :roll:
 
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