Adult hearing

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Hearing aids allow the person wearing them to hear and understand better.

A useful mix!

Features to facilitate your travels

Tips for Optimal Lip-Reading

Assistive listening device in constant evolution

Causes et prévention

Here are the steps in the compensation process

Today's Seniors Are Connected

During a first hearing aid fitting, many people notice a change in how they perceive their own voice. This phenomenon is called autophonia.

Things like humidity and sweat can put your hearing aids to the test. Cold winter weather is also hard on your hearing aids, so it must be monitored carefully.

The holiday season is a time to celebrate with family and friends. However, it’s also a more difficult time for people with hearing loss, as it can be difficult to follow conversations with their loved ones.

Everyday Noise Exposure

Hearing impacts

For Occupational Deafness

Custom Ear Protectors!

Yesterday and Today

Lobe calls for better protection of workers' hearing health

Protecting Yourself during Summer: it Takes More than Sunscreen!

Learn more about the latest technologies

How to explain the difference

To be discovered!

What is It?

Everything You Need to Know

Strategies to facilitate conversations

Some tips for maintaining your hearing aids

How to reduce the risk of some medical conditions

New practices in the health field

An Important Part Of Maintenance!

When discretion rhymes with protection

Some tips and tricks to help you

Few tips to help you adapt to this new reality

If you have trouble understanding in your everyday life

Discouver a new ultra-fast sound processing technology

Videoconference, an effective way to communicate with friends

Hearing aids need to be maintained regularly.

When the auditory nerve is damaged, the primary symptoms are sensorineural deafness and/or vertigo.

People with severe to profound hearing loss greatly rely on their hearing aids, which explains why the transition to new hearing aids may be difficult.

Population aging brings with it an increase in the number of people with hearing loss, an increase in the number of people who wear hearing aids, and higher expectations regarding hearing aid functionalities and performance.

Are there restrictions preventing the hard of hearing from driving?

While it's easy to hear sounds such as the roar of a car's engine, it can be difficult to understand the person speaking beside us in a restaurant.

When hearing aids no longer work well enough or are too inconvenient, it may be time to consider auditory implants.

Given the aging population, age-related hearing loss (presbycusis) is a major public health issue.

For several years now, researchers have been studying the relationship between diabetes and hearing loss.

Chemotherapy is the therapeutic use of chemical agents to treat diseases. It is mostly used to destroy cancer cells.

Have you ever wondered how hearing loss can affect your brain’s health and abilities?

As part of its Où sortir sans limites? project, the Association des personnes avec une déficience de l’audition (APDA) surveyed the Deaf community on the difficulties they face in public spaces.

Have you ever woken up in the morning and noticed a significant decrease in your hearing?

The hearing aid market has adapted to the reality, providing wireless accessories to meet new needs.

Hearing and understanding: Is there a difference? In short, yes. “Hearing” means detecting a sound, while “understanding” means knowing the meaning of a word.

Hearing the sounds around us, whether they be words, noise or music, involves a complex cognitive process to analyze auditory information.

Until recently, hearing researchers believed that aging and noise exposure affected only one type of sensory cell, the cilia (hair cells). However, recent scientific studies have identified a new cause: cochlear synaptopathy.

Sound needs to travel through the air to be heard, the same way light needs to travel through space to be seen. But have you ever wondered how fast sound travels?

Parkinson’s disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease, after Alzheimer’s.

Hearing is essential for properly capturing auditory information and sending it to the brain for analysis. It’s a sense that plays a key role in communication.

Pharmacists specialize in medications and the appropriate ways for the general public to use them. Quebec’s pharmacists are recognized as front-line healthcare providers, and their role has changed a lot over the past few years.

Have you ever had a sudden and overwhelming feeling that the room is spinning around you or that you are spinning yourself? Is it often accompanied by nausea and vomiting?

Falls are responsible for around 14,000 hospitalizations per year in Quebec. They are a major public health issue.

A Radio-Canada report published on November 16 listed seven excellent scientific reasons for reading a book. These include living longer, keeping the brain healthy, reducing stress and improving our relationships with others.

There is a persistent myth that many people aged 50 and over stubbornly turn their backs on new technologies. However, the reality is quite different: more and more aged 50+ are surfing the digital wave.

Falls were responsible for 12,003 deaths in Quebec between 2000 and 2013. That’s an average of 857 deaths per year.

Many people don’t fully realize that they have hearing loss until they no longer hear the phone ringing or an alarm going off.

Are you looking for a soulmate? It can be hard to reveal your hearing loss to a new love interest.

Some people have hearing loss on one side only, caused by birth defects or complications during childhood or adulthood. This unilateral hearing loss can range from severe to profound.

Some 1 in 1000 children are born with severe to profound (>70 dB) bilateral hearing loss. This figure doubles for 5-year-olds.

Hearing loss can affect different everyday situations. For instance, it may become more difficult to hold a conversation on the phone or in a noisy environment, to understand the TV or to watch a show from the back of the theatre.

For several years now, Canadians have been moving towards healthier lifestyles. Exercise and healthy eating are becoming more and more popular. Growing numbers of Canadians are also quitting smoking.

When managing their hearing loss, hearing-­impaired people must get used to a new reality: using hearing aids!

We live in an era where countless advances in wireless technologies are letting us connect to the world around us.

Recent scientific and technological advances are reason enough to convince many people to take action to correct their hearing loss.

Have you ever wondered if it’s possible to wear the hearing aids that a loved one has bequeathed or donated to you? Here are some explanations on the subject.

Once they’re part of our routine, hearing aids become valuable tools that we can’t live without.

Thanks to miniaturization and technological advances, today’s hearing aid circuits allow us to better understand speech in noise and in everyday situations.

At any age, regular physical activity can considerably improve your health and extend your independence and lifespan.

Whether you like cold weather or not, it’s important to take care of your hearing health when you go out during the winter months.

When it comes to hearing aids, people ask themselves many questions to help them make the best choice.

Are you an active person who wears hearing aids? Do you sweat a lot while wearing your hearing aids? This article will explain how to protect your devices!

New, versatile hearing aids provide exceptional sound quality while also allowing users to track their physical, mental and cognitive health.

Electronic hearing aids now come with Bluetooth wireless connectivity, thanks to a simple remote.

An array of innovative functionalities can be found inside new generations of hearing aids.

Tinnitus is the perception of a sound in the absence of an external source of audible sound. It’s a real problem that affects at least 10% of the global population, or roughly 700 million people.

It is a type of hearing aid system used for people with deafness in one ear that cannot be corrected by a hearing aid.

Hearing aid whistling is also called “acoustic feedback.” It’s simply an already-amplified sound re-entering the hearing aid microphone.