How Can Hearing Aids Help You at Home?

Posted on by Advanced ENT & Allergy

Approximately 28.8 million U.S. adults could benefit from the use of hearing aids. The remarkable devices can help create ease of communication at work, keep you safe during jogs at Pennypacker Park and reduce stress at social events. One of the best places hearing aids can improve your life is at home.

How Do Hearing Aids Work?

All hearing aids have three basic components: a microphone that collects sound, an amplifier that raises its volume and a speaker that transmits it directly to the ear canal. Advanced features like tinnitus management, directional microphones, Bluetooth® and more will vary from device to device.

What Features Are Helpful at Home?

A family preparing to eat lunch together, young boy wearing hearing aids.

Hearing aids can bring you closer together with your family. In addition to helping you better understand your loved ones, the devices can help prevent arguments, engage in shared activities and minimize frustrating noises. A couple of the best features hearing aids offer to benefit your home life include:

  • Speech amplification. Speech amplification is beneficial if you live with other people. Your devices will locate and amplify speech sounds to ensure you aren’t missing essential words or phrases. Speech amplification can help prevent a missed request to clean the living room from starting an argument.
  • Noise suppression. Some worry that noise will be overwhelming or frustrating when they first get hearing aids. While this often applies for the first few weeks, noise suppression features can identify and minimize annoying noise for wearer comfort. Noise suppression can help minimize irritating noises like your family doing dishes or typing on their keyboards.
  • Bluetooth. Many of today’s devices have a Bluetooth feature that enables you to connect your hearing aids directly to your phone, laptop, smart TV and other devices. Bluetooth will allow you to share in family movie time without raising the TV’s volume to an uncomfortable level.

Speech amplification, noise suppression and Bluetooth are just a couple of the home-life benefits hearing aids can provide. To learn more about the benefits of starting treatment, contact Advanced ENT & Allergy today to make an appointment with one of our specialists.