Turn Down The Volume For Crying Out Loud & Go Get Hearing Aids

[Lon]

Hey Aging Senior----You know damn well you are not hearing well and driving everyone crazy when you turn up the volume. So spend some of that retirement money and get hearing aids. Oh by the way Get the right kind & not let vanity control your decision.

 

[Ruthanne]

My grandmother needed to hear that years ago Lon. She swore she didn't have a hearing problem but it was unbearable to sit in the room with the tv blaring because she couldn't hear it. I hope if my hearing gets worse I will get hearing devices.

 

[Bobw235]

At my wife's recent appointment to check her hearing aids (she got them 1.5 years ago), there was a poster on the wall talking about the link between hearing loss and the onset/severity of dementia. I can tell you that her mother refused to get hearing aids and it drove her late husband nuts. My MIL said she "liked the quiet", but then she never seemed to grasp that she was causing everyone a lot of frustration. Today she suffers from moderate/severe dementia and it is progressing steadliy. https://www.dementia.org/connection-between-hearing-loss-and-dementia

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/...a-cognitive-decline-in-elderly_n_2527597.html

 

[Carla]

My husband was hard of hearing and turned everything up full blast! While I understood his problem, every once and a while it would work on my nerves! I used to ask him if he was trying to make me deaf too, ha-ha! Oh well, as we age we all have our deficits!

 

[Carla]

At my wife's recent appointment to check her hearing aids (she got them 1.5 years ago), there was a poster on the wall talking about the link between hearing loss and the onset/severity of dementia. I can tell you that her mother refused to get hearing aids and it drove her late husband nuts. My MIL said she "liked the quiet", but then she never seemed to grasp that she was causing everyone a lot of frustration. Today she suffers from moderate/severe dementia and it is progressing steadliy. https://www.dementia.org/connection-between-hearing-loss-and-dementia

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/...a-cognitive-decline-in-elderly_n_2527597.html

I never knew there was a link between the two. There's also an inherited form of hearing loss and it does seem to run in our family. My grandmother, mother and my brother. So far, I think my hearing loss is minimal, probably due to aging. There was a time I could hear the grass grow, that's how my husband described it.

 

[Bobw235]

I never knew there was a link between the two. There's also an inherited form of hearing loss and it does seem to run in our family. My grandmother, mother and my brother. So far, I think my hearing loss is minimal, probably due to aging. There was a time I could hear the grass grow, that's how my husband described it.

I was the one who suggested that my wife get her hearing checked. She kept asking me what was being said on TV. She was diagnosed with moderate hearing loss before she hit 60 years old. So glad she got hearing aids. Doesn't solve all issues, but she really notices the difference in higher pitch sounds. The doctor demonstrated to me using the computer what my wife's hearing loss was like and I was amazed.

 

[Butterfly]

My husband was hard of hearing and turned everything up full blast! While I understood his problem, every once and a while it would work on my nerves! I used to ask him if he was trying to make me deaf too, ha-ha! Oh well, as we age we all have our deficits!

My husband did the same thing. A TV turned up full blast drives me CRAZY. He would have it up so loud the sound was almost palpable. I finally took to wearing ear plugs. I just couldn't STAND the TV up that loud.