10.04.07
Hearing Aids
People using hearing aids are usually suffering from hearing loss seniors whom our democratic society actually has to protect. Then, why do they encounter so many troubles? And what is actually a hearing aid, which these people so desperately need?
Hearing Aid.
This hearing aid is actually a device for assisting the hearing of partially deaf people (people suffering from hearing loss) and usually it consists of a small battery-powered electronic amplifier with microphone and earphone, worn by a deaf person in or behind the ear. This means that these partially deaf people are dependent on this device, without it they are unable to hear, which means – unable to react adequately to the things which happen around them. And this is actually a rather wide-spread problem, because according to different researches, there are more than 30 million people who are deaf, partially deaf or suffering from some kind of hearing disease, only in the USA.
Hearing aids problems.
The first and the most important problem concerning hearing aids is that they cost too much. And not every deaf senior is able to buy it. Modern, top-of-the-line device costs nowadays $2000-4000 at the average. But that is not the highest price which actually reaches $6000-7000. And how an average retired person can pay such a sum? But all medical equipment stores share the conviction that all seniors are pretty wealthy segment of our society and they are able to buy such an expensive device if they really need it. And that is why they are trying to sell only the most expensive hearing aids, so that if a deaf person comes to them, he or she does not have any other option than to buy a hearing aid at a high price or to leave without it. That is why people who share the same hearing problem have to stick to such providers of medical equipment who are interested not in the profit only but also in supporting their customers wealth and health.