How Hearing Better Helps You Live Longer

There are many benefits to enjoying good hearing, just as there are many benefits to having great sight. Yet it’s true that the degree to which you’re able to hear the world around you depends on many factors. Age, for instance, will generally decrease the frequency of pitches you can hear, which is why past a certain point dog whistles cannot be heard at all.

Some people experience hearing loss, just as they can experience a loss of sight due to a range of conditions. Thankfully, hearing loss is becoming easier and easier to both treat and mitigate in recent years, and especially in the last decade. This bodes well for the future of medicine, and those who experience hearing loss every day, as well as those who use a range of devices aimed at helping them live with it.

Hearing loss need not be any obstacle to living a fulfilled, purposeful, active and able life in 2021. The first step, of course, is to visit an esteemed audiologist to help you identify a proper diagnosis and undergo a proper course of treatment, which may include using a hearing aid as appropriate.

Yet it can sometimes be that those who may be starting to experience hearing loss can feel hesitant to get that diagnosis, due to what it implies. It’s important to note that this will not be a negative experience at all, in fact, it’s the first step to making the absolute best out of your new reality. In fact, being treated in this way, and engaging with better hearing, can help you live a longer and better life.

General Day-To-Day Confidence, Mobility and Safety

Of course, it’s important to get this point out of the way, but also pay heed to just how important it is. When your hearing improves, your general day to day safety improves. This might be as simple as being able to remain more aware of your surroundings which, in busy areas such as a city or near a road, can quite literally be lifesaving. It also means you can feel more assertive, communicative and mobile, helping you become more active and engaged when out in public.

Additionally, improved hearing improves your balance, which enables you to avoid falls and other injuries that you may have otherwise incurred. No one deserves to go through that.

Enhanced and Growing Career Prospects

Better hearing enables you to communicate more readily, as well as giving you the confidence to put forward ideas, assert yourself in professional situations, and adapt to more social cues as necessary. While tools like American Sign Language (ASL) are excellent at helping hearing-impaired individuals apply their full genius to the workplace, this amazing language is far from ubiquitous, meaning that better hearing still has a role to play in helping you become eligible for more professional roles and staying competent in them.

Brain Health and Mental Health Are Improved

Hearing more easily can help avoid the early onset of cognitive decline, including its severity, as untreated hearing loss has been linked to dementia and depression in kind. Mental health is also important to consider, as better hearing can help you avoid feeling isolated or as if your condition is unmanageable, which it rarely is. 

When your hearing improves, or at least your approach to making life productive despite hearing loss, your mental health will become better and more robust. That in itself is an eventuality worth working towards – because there’s no reason why hearing loss should define your self-worth as a person in any conceivable regard.

Reinforcing both independence and sociability

When your hearing loss is mitigated and the degree to which you can hear is improved, you can become more independent and autonomous, which is generally advantageous for how confident and able we feel.

Yet it’s also true that reinforcing sociability can be a great idea, because this feeds back into positive mental health and the idea of being able to make our own decisions in life. However, being able to be more social can help you more readily ask for help when you need it, leaning on people as we all have to do from time to time. Reinforcing both independence and sociability in this way can help you live a better, more active and more interesting life, one in which you’re not only interested in leaving your house and experiencing life more often, but are actively trying to each week.

So, Where Do You Go from Here?

If you suspect that you may need a hearing test and an expert opinion, it’s a great idea to visit an audiologist. With Ascent Audiology & Hearing, you can get both of those immediately. We’d recommend you contact us at 941-866-6253.