April 14, 2016 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
If hearing loss is the invisible disability, then sound is the invisible hazard. Without even being alert to it, the sounds we subject ourselves to might be producing permanent hearing loss that grows irreversibly year after year. Who’s in danger of hearing loss? An average conversation registers at a volume of around 60 decibels. City […]
March 17, 2016 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
Hearing loss is identified as the invisible disability for a reason. No one can view or observe your hearing loss, and no one can sense your difficulty and stress. The only thing people can experience is their OWN aggravation when they have to repeat themselves. Sadly, those with hearing loss rarely get the benefit of […]
March 10, 2016 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
Life hack is defined by Oxford Dictionaries as: “A strategy or technique adopted in order to manage one’s time and daily activities in a more efficient way.” Life hacks can help save you both time and money, and some are so easy you’ll wonder why you hadn’t already thought of them. Creative but straightforward life-hacks […]
February 18, 2016 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
There seems to be more misunderstanding when it relates to hearing care than with most other medical specializations. We don’t need to ask, for example, what a dentist or eye doctor can do for us. But when it comes to our hearing, we’re typically uncertain as to what we should do or who we should […]
February 4, 2016 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
You have most likely watched the advertisements. The ones pushing PSAPs, or personal sound amplification products, ensuring a boost to hearing for as little as 20 dollars. It sounds like a excellent bargain—especially when compared to the substantial price tag of a hearing aid. In reality, it’s not so much a great deal as it […]
January 28, 2016 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
In the US, hearing loss to some extent impacts 20 percent of the overall population, or 48 million people. On average, therefore, one out of every five people you meet will have hearing loss. For those who seriously want to understand the condition—or that deal with hearing loss themselves and would like some personal perspective—there’s […]
January 21, 2016 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
If you had the chance to prevent or decrease the risk of cognitive decline as you grew older, how much would you be prepared to pay for it? What would you say to $15 per week? That’s somewhere around the price of a professionally-programmed pair of hearing aids, which the most recent research shows can […]
January 7, 2016 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
Picture your life in 2016 with half the stress and double the energy. Who wouldn’t be interested in that? Even though practically everyone aims for improved health, it’s not a secret that the majority of health-related New Year’s resolutions are unsuccessful. We tend to set resolutions that are too difficult or too complicated—all in the […]
December 24, 2015 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
Quick question: how many individuals in the United States are afflicted with some form of hearing loss? What was your answer? I’m willing to bet, if I had to guess, that it was short of the correct answer of 48 million people. Let’s take a shot at another one. How many people in the US […]
December 17, 2015 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
With one out of every five individuals in the US afflicted with some form of hearing loss, there’s a high probability that you know at least one person who has some difficulty hearing. And considering the potent connections among healthy hearing and physical, mental, and social health, the holiday season is the ideally suited opportunity […]
