Our intent at Allied Hearing Centers is to help improve the quality of life for the extended years that the over 55 age group is enjoying. The goal is to maintain the all important cognitive/communication skills to help insure that the rest of your life can indeed be the very best of your life! 

For example, playing cards, going to the theater, participating in group discussions or book reviews, etc. You may also find that your family is becoming impatient with you and with your frequent requests for them to repeat what they have said. Oftentimes you will find an increase in tension in the family because people are becoming impatient with you or they may treat you like you are confused. In the later stages of severe hearing loss, we may find an increase in auto accidents because we are not totally aware of environmental sounds such as horns or we can't hear the conversation in the rear of a vehicle. Dining out becomes a difficult experience because of the excessive amount of noise in a restaurant which seems to mask or overlay and camouflage the speech signals of the person directly across the table from us. In some restaurants, the noise levels are so high that even people with normal hearing have difficulty.

Generally, we become frustrated more easily because we are not deaf - we can hear and we know that people are speaking to us -- yet we don't completely understand all of the words spoken and in particular, the ends of the words. Our complaints may be that people do not enunciate correctly or that they appear to be mumbling. This occurs because most sensorineural hearing losses, which are the type associated with aging, are of a high frequency nature. We can hear the vowels (the stronger sounds of speech), but we can't hear the consonants - the M's and N's, the S's and the T's, which are usually the soft ends of words.  In short, people aren't really mumbling or enunciating incorrectly - what's happening is we are experiencing the beginning or the moderate stages of nerve deafness. Obviously, the appropriate answer is to get our life cycle back on track by having our hearing evaluated for appropriate diagnosis and potential corrective action.

Warning Signs:

• If you hear, but don't always understand what people say.

• If you must ask others to repeat.

• If you are embarrassed by not being able to hear and understand when you are in a noisy environment.

• If you're getting complaints about the volume on your TV, radio, stereo or telephone.

• If you're experiencing irritability with your family and loved ones over your hearing loss.

• If you have problems, with certain types of voices or complain that people seem to mumble.

• If you hear but have noticed difficulty in understanding conversation in group situations.

• If simply following dialog on the TV has become a strain.

• If you have ringing or noises in the ear(s)--Tinnitus.

• If you pretend to hear someone but really don't, just to avoid embarrassment.

• If you have difficulty following conversation between the front and back seats of a car.

• If you seem to hear better from one ear than the other.

• If you find that you have to sit "up front" in church, temple, or the auditorium to hear.

These symptoms are indication of hearing loss, but do not necessarily mean that you need a hearing aid. That's why it is important to seek the advise of a specialist. On your first visit to one of our offices, we will consult with you on any symptoms you may be experiencing and complete a full physical hearing examination to determine the status of your hearing health. It is only upon completion of this thorough evaluation that recommendations will be made and next steps will be suggested.

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