October is audiology awareness month!
National Audiology Awareness Month!
October marks the start of National Audiology Awareness Month – yes, we get our very own awareness month – and an opportunity to highlight the important role loved ones play in your support when you have hearing loss.
At The Hearing Clinic we always encourage patients to bring a partner or other loved one along to appointments so we can hear first-hand how their hearing loss manifests in day-to-day life with their nearest and dearest. Remember, family members are usually well aware of a person’s hearing loss long before the person themselves.
We also like to speak to family members because they can tell us how your hearing loss affects you personally. What is it stopping you doing? In which scenarios do you particularly struggle? If your hearing has slowly deteriorated, changes may be more noticeable to your loved ones than they are to you, particularly if those loved ones don’t see you all the time.
How else can family or friends help us to give you the best service? Further down the line, if you’ve got new hearing technology to get used to, or new strategies to put in place to help you cope better with hearing loss, it’s your loved ones who will provide the support. In fact, we’d go so far to say that they can make all the difference between a person making the effort to get used to new hearing aids (especially if they haven’t worn them before) and giving up. So the more involved in your hearing journey your loved ones can be, the better – for you and for them.
If you’re worried about changes to your hearing, and you’ve been putting off seeing an audiologist, having a friend or loved one with you at your first appointment will make all the difference. Please call our friendly team at The Hearing Clinic to book your hearing assessment. You don’t even need to tell us that a loved one will be attending with you. Just bring them along on the day!