What should old people pay attention to when they wear hearing aids

For people who use hearing aids for the first time, basically everyone has a good wish to buy hearing aids that are not cheap in China as a whole with their own or family members. After I bought it, I always thought that if I put on the hearing aid, I should go to the park, chat with the old man, watch TV, listen to the radio and so on as before. However, as a front-line fitting examiner, we can always receive some elderly people who “complain” that the hearing aids are not effective and can not let themselves communicate freely in any environment as before.

The reasons are as follows:

1. Several people chat together, and others can’t listen to each other well;

2. The TV is still not clear;

3. It’s too messy. I’m upset. If I don’t want to wear it, I’ll put it aside;

4. I can hear it at ordinary times, only when there are guests or other occasions where I need to wear it, but I can’t hear it clearly, etc.

In fact, the premise of hearing aid is a word of “help”. It means help. In the process of listening, the hearing aid amplifies the sound, and after the ear receives the amplified signal, it needs to turn the electrical signal into the acoustic signal, and this process is completed in the brain of the elderly, especially the auditory center. This transformation depends on the existing level of the elderly, that is, the recognition and understanding of sound.

In the process of daily reception, it is often found that the elderly require to listen to others in a low voice. Or the old people with low resolution want to hear the normal chat content of others around them. Can not hear clearly blame on the hearing aid itself, that did not play its due role. But in fact, the use of hearing aids is the most effective face-to-face and within two or three meters. Talk to the old people with hearing aids. It’s better to talk about topics that the old people are interested in. Speak slowly. Because of the age relationship of the elderly, most of them have already shown the phenomenon of slow response. Just because the response is slow, the speech speed is faster, even the speech speed is normal, there is no response. It’s because the hearing aid doesn’t work. I think the hearing aid also needs to shout a wrong.

Wearing hearing aids will bring great convenience to the old people’s daily life, but this is not the whole of life. Some old people still feel that wearing them is disorderly and unwilling to wear them. In this case, we need to treat them differently. For example, because the hearing aid is the earliest box type machine or simple hand-held machine, it can amplify the full frequency of sound and cannot reduce noise. It is necessary to choose a digital machine with better noise reduction effect. If it is due to the improper adjustment of the machine, it needs to be reasonably adjusted by the fitting engineer. If it is because the noise reduction effect of the digital machine does not meet the expectation of the elderly, the elderly had better try to reduce the noise effect of a better machine, and make some comparison in person, in order to be more confident about the value of the hearing aid.

There was an old man who was very typical. I chose a machine with good performance in all aspects, but I think I can hear it better at ordinary times, and I don’t wear it at all. It is usually worn at home or when you want to listen to TV. But in fact, the old people did not get the desired listening effect in this situation. I still can’t hear it clearly. Let’s briefly analyze why this happens. First of all: the old man thinks he listens well at ordinary times, so he doesn’t wear it. We come to a conclusion by asking the family members of the old man that the old man listens well is what he thinks. With myself as a reference, I think I have heard every sentence psychologically, and there are ways to give me the right response. But the family reflected that sometimes they would be distracted, and the words with similar pronunciation could easily be heard into other words. But it’s not that bad. So it’s rare to point out the old man’s mistakes. Second, psychologically, hearing is not heavy enough to require hearing aids, so put it aside. But when we need to use hearing aids, we hope to see the use effect of hearing aids immediately. We don’t exercise or listen. Just like a novice wearing hearing aids, if he doesn’t go through the adaptation period and form a good habit of listening with hearing aids, he will not get good results naturally. Any kind of good result is accumulated by a certain time process. Without this exercise process, there are unrealistic expectations for hearing aids, so you will naturally feel disappointed.

So we choose hearing aids. It’s important to have a reasonable expectation. Old people can do psychological construction for themselves in this way. Tell yourself that today is better than yesterday. For example, the face-to-face communication with people before is not smooth, but now it is. It’s progress. After half a year, the wearing effect is better than before half a year. For example, after half a year of listening exercise, it is basically no problem to be able to communicate with three people at the same time, which is a great progress. A year later, I can communicate with people in a slightly disordered environment. I’m not afraid of noise, I can basically understand the meaning, or even better. This is more obvious progress. I hope every old man can do this job. Because, on the basis of low psychological expectation, this can make you get better listening effect and harvest than expected. You’ll be more satisfied with the benefits of hearing aids, rather than focusing on the disadvantages of hearing aids. Because the disadvantage of hearing aids is that they can’t replace our own ears. The function of auxiliary equipment is to help us, not to give us more trouble. Accept it, establish a reasonable expectation for the hearing aid, insist on using it, communicate with the fitting examiner on the problem of listening and wearing in time during the use process, achieve the above points, and achieve good listening effect will become a higher than expected existence.

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