Today's Hearing Aids

By Kathy Mellott, AuD

High-performance technology and style have merged with durability and ease-of-use when it comes to today's hearing aids. The options are so varied there is an attractive solution for just aboutanyone.

Many of today's hearing aids allow users to hear from all directions, in all sorts of sound environments, and even underwater. They are digital, wireless, can connect directly to your smartphone or television, and can be as discreet or as visible as you like.

Designers offer styles for the fashion conscious, the trendsetter, the partygoer, the intellectual, the active sports enthusiast, the cautious grandmother, the romantic, the weekend warrior, and even the guy just tired of arguing with his wife and kids about the volume on the TV.

Simply, today's hearing aids throw away old-world notions about hiding a condition as common as hearing loss. Whether they sit discreetly inside the ear canal, or wrap aesthetically around the contour of the outer ear like the latest fashion accessory, today's high-performance hearing aids amplify life.

They unabashedly send the message “I'm too young and full of life to stop doing the things I lovebest.”

Excerpted from the Better Hearing Institute.org