Author: Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn / Source: did you know?
By age 40, an estimated 1 in 10 adults experience some hearing loss, but it happens gradually enough that many people don’t realize what they’re missing until things have gotten fairly severe. Even when people do realize that they’re not hearing things the way they used to, there are factors that make it difficult to get the help they need.
For one thing, hearing aids are expensive — around $4,500 for upper end models — and insurance plans don’t typically cover all of the costs (some don’t cover anything, and Medicare falls into that group as well).
For another, hearing aids can make people feel “old,” and often we only give in and try them after months or years of insistence by frustrated loved ones. Audiologist Dina Rollins fits people with hearing aids regularly and says that if vanity is stopping you, it shouldn’t, because technology has…
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