We provide this free health resource to visitors of the Community Room of SeniorSSuperStoreS in an effort to keep baby boomers, seniors and the elderly informed of matters that can affect their lifestyle.

The hearing aids that are best for you depend on your particular hearing impairment.Size, style and circuitry will be determined by you and your audiologist. Properly fitted hearing aids are comfortable to wear and make sounds easier to hear. If you require hearing aids, you have many choices in styles and new electronic features.

Completely-in-the-canal hearing aids are increasingly popular with the public. Since the hearing aid fits deeply within the canal close to the eardrum, it has a cosmetic advantage.It also has acoustical advantages over the other types of hearing aids, such as better high frequency amplification, easier telephone use and a more comfortable fit. However, the severity of hearing loss and/or ear canal size and shape may prevent the use of completely-in-the-canal hearing aids.

Presently, many options can be added to hearing aids, allowing a person to maximize their hearing. Circuit features are the electronic elements that dictate how the hearing aid amplifies. The type of circuitry is chosen based on the kind and degree of hearing loss. Most of these circuits can be included in any type of hearing aid, such as in-the-ear, in-the-canal, behind-the-ear, and completely-in-the-canal hearing aids.

The new programmable, digital, and directional microphone hearing aids offer advanced technology which audiologists may recommend because of their superiority to conventional hearing aids as amplification devices. They do not provide any cosmetic advantage, as it is usually impossible to tell that a hearing aid is programmable or digital simply by looking at it. Unlike conventional hearing aids, should a person’s hearing environment change or their hearing loss fluctuate, the programmable and digital hearing aids can be easily adjusted in the audiologist’s office. This flexibility can reduce expensive repairs or replacement of a hearing aid, which could be the case with a conventional hearing aid.

A hearing loss doesn’t mean a person must miss the hearing pleasures of life.Professional hearing care often translates to better family, work and social relationships.Properly fitted hearing aids can help restore enjoyment of life to its fullest.

Courtesy of the National Ear Care Plan, Denver, CO.
Phone: 800-333-3389.

If you have hearing problems, we present a variety of affordable alternatives to traditional hearing aids in our Assisted Hearing department. Our featured product, the Audium 2, is up to 20 times more powerful than normal hearing aids, is user adjustable for each ear so YOU can match the exact hearing loss in each ear, and it is rechargable - so you'll never buy batteries for it, meaning that the cost of the unit is less than a year's supply of batteries for 2 conventional hearing aids. The unit instantly connects to any telephone, TV, stereo and radio, allowing you ease of listening without disturbing others.

If you suffer hearing difficulties when using the telephone, we feature several amplified phones and telephone amplifiers in our Phones & Pagers department.