Video: When To Be Concerned About Hearing Loss

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Make sure to have your hearing assessed on a regular basis. Learn about hearing loss, hearing tests and hearing aids from a professional audiologist in this free health video.

Video Transcript

Hearing, we rely very heavily on our hearing for communication, if your hearing starts to break down, then communication starts to break down. You start to have break downs in communication things start deteriorating in other areas of your life, so it really does negatively impact your quality of life. In order to maintain that it's extremely important that hearing is assessed on a regular basis. Particularly after the age of forty-five I recommend that you get your hearing tested once every two years after the age of forty-five. For most people who have hearing loss it happens very gradually, so quite often you end up in the situation where you've been living with untreated hearing loss for a very long period of time before you realize it. They say on average that people live with hearing loss for about seven years before they finally get an assessment. For children it's very important that their hearing is tested very early on and if everything is normal probably once every five years is efficient. It's very important that their hearing is tested very early on because they rely on their hearing for education, and language learning and that kind of thing.

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When To Be Concerned About Hearing Loss

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