Ask An Expert: In terms of Technology, How Much Could Hearing Aids Actually Have Changed?

Q: “I KEEP HEARING ABOUT ‘NEW HEARING AID TECHNOLOGY’, BUT IS THAT JUST A GIMMICK? HOW MUCH COULD HEARING AIDS ACTUALLY HAVE CHANGED?”

Like many other high-tech devices, hearing aids have experienced a major technological revolution in the past decade, and specifically in the last several years.

The best of today’s hearing aids can do the following:

• Have settings adjusted by the latest iPhone® or Android devices

• Make listening in noisy environments easier and more comfortable with adaptive directional microphones

• Virtually eliminate feedback

• Stream stereo sound from TVs and other media players directly to the hearing aids themselves

• Be used as hands-free Bluetooth devices

These features are contained within hearing aids that are smaller (even invisible, in some cases) and more comfortable and powerful than those that have been available before. Give them a try - you may be amazed by how they impact your life!