Those studies should provide plenty of encouragement to make regular hearing checkups a common part of your preventative health regimen, but I’m going to provide you with one more positive, just in case you’re still on the fence about your hearing health.
According to research conducted by Dr. Janet Choi from the University of Southern California, patients who used hearing aids regularly had a 24 percent lower risk of mortality when compared to the group that didn’t use hearing aids at all.
As a means of encouraging people in Port Credit and nearby communities to take hearing healthcare seriously, I want to share Dr. Choi’s findings.
Hearing Aids Increase Your Life Expectancy
Hearing aids are not the only contributor to increasing your life expectancy.
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Lower risk of mortality when compared to the group that didn’t use hearing aids at all.
However, the focus of Dr. Choi’s study is on how individuals with hearing loss challenges decrease their risk of mortality through day-to-day use of their hearing aids.
In addition to helping you communicate better, hearing aids decrease your risk of cognitive decline, lower your risk of balance-related falls, and limit the impact of other negative mental and physical health conditions that have the potential to limit your life expectancy. Unfortunately, those who receive treatment often neglect to wear their hearing aids on a regular basis.
A major issue connected to this problem is the fact that hearing loss is an invisible issue that comes on at a slow pace. Most people don’t even know they are struggling with their hearing until it begins to have a negative effect on their lifestyle and quality of life.
That’s where regular hearing assessments can help identify hearing loss challenges before they become a significant health issue.
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Participants wore their hearing aids regularly outside of the experiment.
How Do Hearing Care Professionals Help?
Professional hearing care can help save lives, bring people together, and keep people active through the use of hearing aids, monitoring, maintenance, and professional hearing assessments. However, it is still up to the hearing aid user to make wearing their hearing aids a daily priority.
The outdated image of a bulky, awkward hearing aid sticking out from behind your ear is slowly dying thanks to advanced digital technology that has allowed manufacturers to produce smaller, lighter weight, and more powerful hearing aids. Hearing aid users can have a significant impact on changing the perception of hearing aids by wearing them without reservations.
Your doctor of audiology can and will improve your lifestyle and quality of life in many different ways by providing professional hearing care with prescription-level hearing aids that are properly programmed, monitored, and maintained.
A comprehensive hearing assessment at Port Credit Audiology & Hearing Aid Clinic is designed to evaluate all of the possible causes for your hearing loss challenges, like family history, genetics, infection, noise-related accidents, and even earwax buildup.
Our in-depth hearing analysis from the data we gather during your testing allows us to develop hearing care solutions that address your unique hearing challenges rather than just putting a pair of hearing aids in your ears and sending you out the door.
The ongoing care we provide includes education about your hearing and hearing aids, support while you adapt to the instruments, troubleshooting, maintenance, and repair. Our goal is to help ensure that you will continue to reap the benefits your hearing aids provide, including longer life.
Professional hearing care, alongside properly maintained hearing aids, can make a huge difference in the quality of life you live and how long you live – when taken seriously.
Concerned About Your Hearing Health?
If professional hearing care and hearing aids have the potential to prevent so many negative health consequences and extend your life, doesn’t it make sense to take a deeper look into whether hearing aids would be a worthy investment?
Take the first step by scheduling a comprehensive hearing assessment at Port Credit Audiology & Hearing Aid Clinic today. Contact us online using this link, or give us a call at (905) 990-3755.
