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In 1991 Billy and Akaisha Kaderli retired at the age of 38. Now, into their 4th decade of this financially independent lifestyle, they invite you to take advantage of their wisdom and experience.

Five Advanced Hearing Aid Features You Might Want to Consider

Charles Menten

Your choice of hearing aids, and how well you care for them, can make a major impact on your quality of life if you are living with hearing loss. However, how you choose your hearing aids should take more than just your range of hearing and device size into account. You should also think about the different kinds of advanced features that they can offer, as well. Here, we’re going to look at some of the features that you can choose which can allow you to better live the lifestyle you want without having to make as many compromises.

 

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Bluetooth connectivity

Nowadays, digital technology is everywhere. Smart TVs, smartphones, smart speakers. Everything is smart, which means that they’re able to wirelessly connect to one another. Your hearing aid might be able to connect to your devices, too. This can help you control your hearing aid through smartphone apps, but it can also help you better hear your TV or laptop by, for instance, directly transmitting their audio output to your hearing aids.

Directional microphones

Communication is a big barrier for a lot of people with hearing loss. While hearing aids can help significantly with helping you pick up voices, it can still be difficult in crowded or loud spaces. Directional microphones can help you more easily pick out voices from the noise, and can generally just make it a lot easier and more effortless to converse with people.

Noise reduction

Your ability to hear can sometimes be diminished by background noise that affects the quality of your hearing aids. Feedback is a common issue for hearing aid wearers, and feedback reduction can help make it much less of an interruption to your day-to-day. If you spend a lot of time outdoors, then you might also want to consider wind noise reduction. These features can make sure that you have clarity of sound in all kinds of situations.

Waterproofing

As a rule, you want to protect your hearing aids from excessive moisture, as it can cause all manner of issues with them. This can get in the way of an active lifestyle, however, if you spend time outdoors or even go swimming. Exploring water-resistant hearing aids can help you find devices that can either tolerate higher levels of moisture or can even be submerged. Find the device with the right level of water resistance to suit the kind of activity you really want to be back into.

Tinnitus reduction

A lot of people who experience hearing loss also experience tinnitus, a symptom commonly described as hearing a ringing in your ear. Even when you improve your hearing with the help of the right device, tinnitus sounds can get in the way, affecting your quality of life negatively. As such, there are hearing aids that have features to help you attune to the sound of your tinnitus so that it becomes a lot less noticeable.

It’s important to ensure that your hearing aids meet all of your needs, so aside from considering the features mentioned above, talk to your audiologist to ensure you’re getting the best possible fit. 

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Billy and Akaisha Kaderli are recognized retirement experts and internationally published authors on topics of finance, medical tourism and world travel. With the wealth of information they share on their award winning website RetireEarlyLifestyle.com, they have been helping people achieve their own retirement dreams since 1991. They wrote the popular books, The Adventurer’s Guide to Early Retirement and Your Retirement Dream IS Possible available on their website bookstore or on Amazon.com.

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