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PATIENTS are waiting between three weeks and three years for NHS hearing aids depending on where they live, according to a report out today.
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Hearing Loss article – The Times
A recent article published in The Times explains how the majority of us even if conscious that we are losing our hearing, do nothing about it. It is much more effective to get hearing loss treated as soon as possible, and for that treatment to be as effective as possible.
Hear the World, a charity, have taken on-board as part of its mission to alleviate the problems of deafness that affect 500 million sufferers worldwide, to try and persuade people to regard a hearing aid as being no more unusual than a pair of spectacles, so that those wearing them won't be stigmatised as being aged and on the way out.
In Westernised countries, one in three people over 65 has impaired hearing, and while there have been steady improvements in the early detection of hearing loss, there is still some way to go. At least one in five - probably more - patients who has a hearing loss is either unaware of it, or will not wear a hearing aid because of the stigma associated with it.
Diminished hearing also classified as deafness, or hard of hearing, is enough to lessen the everyday pleasures of life. This is not only because of the obvious inability to appreciate subtleties of music, birdsong, the sounds of the countryside or the chatter of children, but also due to an intellectual handicap caused by words missed in conversations, lectures and on the radio.
Hearing loss is also common in younger people with 18 per cent of young people in Europe now show some signs of it, probably because 85 per cent of those who have this difficulty have regularly attended nightclubs and have worn iPods. The ears of regular clubbers are rarely given a rest. During the day they are assaulted by the hammering and hissing noises of industry, the sound of planes, traffic and restaurants. At night the overworked and overloaded hearing senses are subjected to the constant din of the dance floor and bar, only tolerable because noise is not noticed when other enjoyable activities are taking place. If the centres of pleasure in the brain are stimulated, the irritation of noise is forgotten.
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