3 March 2024: World Hearing Day in Australia Did you know there are 4 million Australians living with hearing loss?And this figure is predicted to increase to almost 9 million by 2050 as the population in Australia ages. What is World Hearing Day? World Hearing Day is...
Research Links Hearing Loss to Dementia People often ask why untreated hearing loss matters. They wonder why someone should wear hearing aids all day if they can “get by” without them or why they need them if they don’t socialize.The answers are not always simple and...
Sea Anemone May Repair Damaged Hearing The small hearing cells (called hair cells) in mammals, such as humans, have limited ability to repair themselves after trauma. For this reason, when our hair cells are damaged due to noise, trauma or aging (wear-and-tear), we...
Slowing Brain Changes Article review by Michael Wong; Principal Audiologist, Alpha Hearing. I was interested to read this article by journalist Jill Margo in the Australian Financial Review (Apr 5 2016). Through my years in clinical practice, I have come to...
25-Year Study of Cognitive Decline In a recent study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Professor Amieva found that the rate of cognitive decline in older adults who had a hearing loss and using hearing aids was not significantly different to...
What if you can feel what you hear? What if your phone could pick up the sounds you hear, then transmit this to a vest that gives different pulsating feelings? Your brain then translates these pulses to sound signals and processes this in the same way as sound. Our...
