Effects of Hearing Loss
Hearing loss can significantly reduce your quality of life impacting many aspects of your daily living. It can restrict your ability to interact with others, prevent you from hearing vital information, cause misunderstandings, heighten stress, and trigger unnecessary fatigue.
Hearing loss can isolate a person from society and their families, often straining relationships, and causing or aggravating emotional disorders.
In some cases, untreated hearing loss has been falsely diagnosed as Alzheimer's disease because of the symptomatic similarities. A 1996 University of South Florida study of memory disorders found that 94 percent of respondents suffered from untreated hearing loss. The study found strong evidence that using a hearing instrument, combined with effective follow-up care, may alleviate many of the symptoms commonly attributed to Alzheimer's disease.
Early identification plays a vital role in limiting the adverse affects of hearing loss. It starts with a simple hearing evaluation and a few words of encouragement from family and friends.