YES! Hearing Aids do work! Overall customer satisfaction with new hearing instruments nationally is 77 percent — placing hearing aids in the top third of products and services in the United States.
If this is true, why do most people with hearing loss feel they hear fine and don’t need help?
Studies show that 69 percent of people with hearing loss do not use hearing aids because they say, “My hearing isn’t bad enough,” while 68 percent say, “I can get along without one.”
A study conducted by the National Council on Aging explains that people who have a hearing loss and choose not to wear hearing aids are more likely to experience depression, anxiety, paranoia and emotional turmoil, compared to people who choose to wear hearing aids.
Locally, patient satisfaction surveys taken by Peninsula Hearing, Inc., in 2006 and annually to present, indicate that 86 percent of patients overall are satisfied with their hearing aids and say their hearing aids improve their quality of life. 89 percent would recommend hearing aids to others and 96 percent say they are not embarrassed by wearing their hearing aids.
The firm partners with manufacturers that are leading the industry in providing the most powerful processors available in hearing devices. This in turn allows those devices to achieve sound amplification that is proven to increase speech understanding in noise and reduce the effort required to listen in a noisy environment.
Extensive field testing has just been completed during in Europe and the U.S. with hearing aids using the newest processors. Comments from test subjects include: “These devices give me a quiet clarity, a gentle sound,” “Not a lot of extra racket or clutter in the sound I hear.” Dr. Nightingale, a user of hearing aids, performed a test by wearing them herself. “Compared to my current hearing aids, which are three years old, the sound was so natural, at times I could not tell whether they were on or not, except for the fact that I could hear and understand speech much better, even in a crowded and noisy meeting room.
For more information, call (360) 697-3061, (800) 540-8698, or visit www.peninsulahearing.com.
