Hearing Loss: Causes, Prevention and Supportive Remedies
Hearing Loss: Causes, Prevention and Supportive Remedies It starts with asking people to repeat themselves more often. Then you raise the TV volume, and the family complains. A few months later, group conversations exhaust you, you miss what is said at a lively dinner table, and sometimes your phone ring slips by. Older generations would say someone “got hard of hearing” and accepted it as a natural consequence of age. Today we know hearing loss is not merely a matter of aging but the result of cumulative factors, many of them preventable. When untreated, the consequences extend into depression, isolation, and even dementia. ...