Aging causes profound changes to your body, including your hearing. If you are a senior with hearing difficulties, you need to seek out the expertise of an audiologist. Dr. Andrew Parker at Parker Audiology & Hearing Center in Norwalk, CT, provides comprehensive ENT and audiology services for people of all ages, including seniors.

What You Need To Know About Hearing Loss and Aging

Hearing loss can happen at any age, but it is more common with seniors and the elderly. You can benefit from a hearing test by an audiologist if you are experiencing:

• Difficulty hearing high-pitched noises like a phone ringing
• Men’s voices are easier to hear than women’s voices
• Some sounds seem excessively loud
• Ringing in one or both ears

Additional signs of hearing loss may or may not be related to aging. You should also seek an evaluation by an audiologist if you are experiencing:

• Hearing only muffled speech or sounds
• Problems picking out speech from background noise
• Needing people to speak more loudly or slowly

Hearing loss can sneak up on you, so it’s important to have a hearing screening every 10 years up until age 50 and every 3 years after age 50. Your audiologist will administer a simple hearing test to determine if you suffer from hearing loss and to what degree.

If you are experiencing hearing loss, your audiologist offers several types of hearing aids that can improve your hearing and quality of life. Types of hearing aids include:

• CIC hearing aids, which fit completely in your ear canal
• ITE hearing aids, which loop over your outer ear
• BTE hearing aids, which loop over the top and behind your ear

Cochlear implants are an option to treat severe hearing loss. Cochlear implants compensate for parts of your ear that are malfunctioning.

Want To Know More About Hearing Loss and Aging?

Talk with an expert to learn more about how audiologists can improve the quality of life for seniors experiencing hearing loss. Call Dr. Andrew Parker at Parker Audiology & Hearing Center in Norwalk, CT. You can reach him at (203) 866-4327. Call today.