Why is there no established market for second hand hearing aids? Given the high price of a new aid, you would think that a cheaper second-hand model would be very tempting to a lot of people.
It’s not so different from buying a second hand car
The second-hand car market is huge. People have the option of [...]

Whilst I was out at lunch the other day, I got a call from an old friend that I hadn’t spoken to for months. I was outside when he called - it was a windy day.
He was telling me all about his new Flickr photo sets when suddenly he stopped talking mid-sentence and asked, “What’s [...]

There’s an article in WIRED magazine by Erin Biba called “Why Things Suck: Hearing Aids”.
The article starts by, quite rightly, stating that hearing aids are too expensive - I couldn’t agree more. It then goes on to talk about directional microphones, inadequate feedback and noise reduction and, finally, the the fact that insurance rarely covers [...]

If you are a hearing aid wearer, can you go without them? Do you feel comfortable leaving the house if you haven’t got your aids in?
I have a severe hearing loss in both ears - if I am not wearing my aids and somebody wants to speak to me then they have to be close [...]

I previously wrote about how letting hearing aid wearers program their own aids would be good thing. To briefly recap: I think that giving us wearers a simplified version of the software that audiologists use to program digital hearing aids to an individual’s requirements would allow us to get maximum benefit from our aids.
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