The Benefits of Wearing Your Hearing Aids All Day: Enhancing Your Hearing with Ear Studio’s Best Practices
AN ARTICLE FROM EAR STUDIO
At Ear Studio, we are committed to delivering the highest standard of audiological care through best-practice principles.
Our approach ensures that every hearing aid fitting is optimised for comfort, clarity, and effectiveness. In this article, we will explore three key benefits of wearing your hearing aids all day and how best-practice audiology plays a crucial role.
1. Improving Communication
Hearing is at the heart of daily communication. Whether it’s engaging in conversations with family and friends, interacting with shop assistants, or receiving important advice from healthcare professionals, clear hearing enhances every interaction.
Our best-practice audiology ensures that your hearing aids are fine-tuned using real-ear measurements (REM) to provide the most accurate amplification for your specific hearing loss. This precise fitting process ensures that you hear speech clearly, even in challenging environments, making communication effortless and enjoyable.
2. Strengthening Connections with Loved Ones
Social connections are essential for emotional well-being, and hearing loss can create barriers to meaningful interactions. When conversations become difficult, people may withdraw from social settings, leading to feelings of isolation, frustration, and sadness.
With Ear Studio’s best-practice approach, we personalise your hearing solutions to fit your lifestyle, ensuring you can engage fully in conversations and events. We take the time to verify that your devices provide the best possible clarity and comfort, empowering you to stay connected and engaged with the people who matter most.
3. Help Maintain Cognitive Functions
The connection between hearing loss and an increased risk of dementia has been well studied in recent years. While the risk of dementia may seem far away in the future for some of us, a more immediate factor is our daily cognitive load. With an untreated hearing loss, our brain has to work much harder and uses its resources to receive information.
As a result, less cognitive resources for processing and understanding are available. Should the information you receive be complex or fast, such as rapid speech, even more resources are needed. If this becomes too hard most people become stressed; they may seem impatient as they cannot keep up, they may feel embarrassed to ask for repetition, and others simply switch off.
Why Wearing Your Hearing Aids All Day Matters
Hearing aids offer the most benefit when worn consistently. The brain needs regular exposure to sound to maintain auditory processing skills, and the longer hearing loss goes untreated, the harder it becomes to adjust. By wearing your hearing aids daily, you allow your brain to adapt to sound naturally, improving comprehension and maximising your overall outcome.
At Ear Studio, we believe in the transformative power of better hearing. As part of the Hearing Up Network, we voluntarily adhere to the highest global standards in audiology, ensuring you receive expert care and the best possible outcomes. If you or a loved one would like to experience the benefits of best-practice hearing care, we invite you to get in touch.
Contact our friendly team to schedule a Best Practice Hearing Evaluation on (02) 9159 6122 or via email at [email protected]. We are open Monday to Thursday from 9am to 5pm and Fridays from 9am to 4pm and are located at Lawton House in Castle Hill (suites 9-10 / 60 Cecil Ave).
We look forward to helping you hear better and live better!
