from Healthy Hearing, April 2010
If you have been doing your research on hearing aids you should know by now the majority of hearing aids sold today are digital. Just as any other electronic device, digital technology has brought innovation and improvements to hearing aids on many different levels.
One improvement reported by consumers is the utility of their hearing aids - the number of places where the wearer reports their hearing aids have improved their ability to hear. And thank goodness for that reported improvement, isn't that the point of wearing hearing aids - to hear better and improve your ability to hear in many different environments?
In a report from the Better Hearing Institute (BHI), a non-profit organization the utility of hearing aids is on the rise ad consequently so it perceived benefit. According to BHI's report, the utility of hearing aids is directly related top received benefit; thus the higher the number of listening environments a hearing aid wearer feels their hearing has been improved the more benefit they feel they have received. And any consumer knows benefit translates to satisfaction.
So exactly why has the utility of hearing aids improved recently? Well, many reasons with the core being a dramatic improvement in digital signal processing abilities of hearing aids - the ability to manipulate sound through digital technology. In addition, today's hearing aids boast a variety of features which allow them to work harder and more efficiently in previously challenging environments.
Bottom line: hearing aids deliver more features in more places than ever before.
And, if you think hearing aids are big, clunky and complicated, it's time to rethink your hearing loss. Today, as shown in BHI's research, hearing aids deliver more than ever before based on the perceptions of those who actually use these tools in their daily lives.
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