The benefits of hearing aids for deaf patients

“Why do the old people wear hearing aids?” “what’s the good thing for the old people to wear hearing aids?” at the hearing disability communication conference, many old people had a heated discussion on this series of issues. So why do old people wear hearing aids?

I. improve mental health

According to scientific research, compared with the old people with normal hearing, the old people with hearing impairment have worse thinking and memory. Hearing loss, the brain receiving less stimulation of sound, need to spend more energy to deal with sound, so it will sacrifice some energy originally used to deal with memory and thinking, which will lead to the decline of thinking ability and memory of the elderly in the long run. Therefore, the old people will have difficulties in communication and reduce communication in life. As time goes by, the elderly lose their interest in social activities, gradually isolate themselves from the outside world, and become reticent and self abased.

2. Not prone to Alzheimer’s disease

When the human body hears the sound, the brain will be excited only when it receives the sound signal; when it does not hear the sound, the consciousness will be in the state of not excited, and the brain will lose its vitality and slow down its response to the external stimulation. Over time, hearing loss will make the elderly slow to respond, reduce their language ability and communication, which will not only affect the quality of life of the elderly, but also lead to a series of psychological problems such as loneliness, indifference, depression, and even lead to dementia.

III. make listening better and better

Due to the aging of the body, atrophy of hair cells in the cochlea and degeneration of hearing center function, the hearing of the elderly is reduced, even deafness, so many elderly people always complain that “they can hear but can not hear clearly”. However, wearing hearing aids can make up for this defect, make the sound clear and loud, and slow down the aging process of the hearing system. Mr. Xu reminded the hearing impaired elderly and their children to wear hearing aids in time to avoid hearing loss.

4. Masking tinnitus

The amplified sound of hearing aid will inhibit the feeling of tinnitus. If it is only selected on one side, the tinnitus on the other side may still exist, which will affect the comfort and clarity. Therefore, in order to improve the comfort and intelligibility of listening, we should try our best to match the deaf patients with tinnitus or tinnitus. In this way, it can not only improve the listening effect, but also mask the phenomenon of deafness.

V. prevention of unilateral hearing fatigue

Most of the old people who use hearing aids on one side, due to the lack of integration effect, noise reduction and sense of orientation. In order to hear or hear some sounds, we often take unlimited methods to increase the volume of hearing aids. As time goes on, the brain’s auditory nerve adapts to loud sounds, which will cause the threshold of hearing to increase. Since the wearing of both ears can improve the integration effect, noise reduction and orientation ability, it will provide relatively high comfort and signal-to-noise ratio for the ears, so as to avoid the frequent unilateral increase of volume and prevent hearing fatigue.

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