Hear Well…Live Well!
When you’re wearing hearing instruments, you’re doing more than just improving your hearing – you’re improving your quality of life, too. Physical, emotional, social and mental well—being are all connected to the ability to hear well. According to the National Council on Aging (NCOA)*, hearing aid use is positively related to the following quality of life issues:
- Improved interpersonal relationships
- Improved overall health
- Reduction in discriminatory behaviors towards a person with hearing loss
- Reductions in depression and depressive symptoms
- Improved emotional stability
- Reduction in introverted behaviors
- Increased belief that one is in control of one’s life
- Reduced feelings of paranoia and anxiety
- Enhanced group and social activity