Top 5 Hearing Aid Features and Why You Want Them

If it’s been a few years since your last hearing aid purchase, you may notice a lot has changed. Hearing aid makers are constantly improving hearing technology to create a more natural hearing experience for you. However, depending on your lifestyle and unique hearing profile, you may or may not need all of these new […]

I Am Happy and Proud to Tell People That I Wear a Hearing Aid

I got a hearing aid about three weeks ago for my left ear. I am 68 years old, and I have had problems with hearing for a long time, but I kept putting it off. Now I simply LOVE my hearing aid. I go for walks, and I can hear the birds chirping. I hear […]

I Was Born with Hearing Loss – Hearing Aids Opened Up a New World to Me

I was born with a hearing loss, and got my first pair of hearing aids when I was 9. I am also a singer, actor, and dancer. I sing in a professional choir and church choir, perform in musicals and plays, and have earned a silver medal in the World Finals of Winterguard International—which incorporates […]

Top Tips for Traveling with Hearing Aids

Summer is just around the corner, so you may be thinking about doing some traveling. Whether you’re hopping in the car for a road trip to see family or jumping on a plane to somewhere exotic, if you have hearing aids, here are a few things to keep in mind as you travel. Don’t Forget […]

3 Health Reasons You Should Wear Your Hearing Aids All the Time

Most people with hearing loss quickly discover the amazing benefits of hearing aids when they start wearing them on a regular basis. However, if you have a mild or moderate hearing loss, you may feel like you only get the benefits of hearing aids in certain situations. For example, some people may only wear hearing […]

How to Clean and Care for Your Hearing Aids

Regular care and cleanings will extend the life of your hearing aids and help keep them in top working condition. You wouldn’t buy a brand new car and then never wash it or change the oil, would you? Keeping your hearing aids in good working condition requires maintenance too. You’ve made a valuable investment; here […]

Never Say Never When It Comes to Loud Noises

Learn more about what loud noises do to our hearing You are around damaging, loud noises more often than you think! One of the questions that I always ask my patients is “Have you ever been exposed to loud noise?” The responses I often get are “No, never”, “I don’t think so”, and occasionally I […]

What Is an Audiologist, and What Can They Do?

Getting to know your hearing care provider Many people have the same question, “what is an audiologist and what can they do?” Audiologists are primary health care professionals who earn a Doctor of Audiology (AuD). Audiologists must be licensed in most states and work in a variety of settings (i.e. hospitals, universities, ENT offices, etc.). […]

Presbycusis (or Why Older Adults Can’t Hear As Well)

Out of all the reasons for problems hearing, Presbycusis is the most common. Presbycusis is also known as age-related hearing loss. This is a common cause of hearing loss in adults worldwide. Hair cells, which are the receptors in the inner ear, tend to fall out & degrade as a person ages, which affects their […]

Hearing Loss and Older Adults: Start Improving Hearing

Hearing loss testing, dealing with hearing loss, and descriptions of treatments and devices. Hearing loss is one of the most common conditions affecting older adults. One in three people older than 60 have hearing loss. Even though hearing loss is such a common problem many people don’t know what to do about it. The first […]

AMA Study Finds Link Between Hearing Loss and Depression

We many not recognize them at first, but early signs of hearing loss may begin to manifest themselves as simple personality quirks in our family members, for example the grandmother who smiles lovingly and nods when she can’t understand small children or the uncle who always talks in an inappropriately loud voice. Although they may […]

How Speech Reading Can Help Maximize the Benefits of Your Hearing Aid

Hearing aids will greatly increase your ability to understand conversations, but learning to read visual cues and understanding basic speech reading, can help supplement your ears with other information and fill in the blank spots in your communication. Everyone—with or without hearing loss—uses these cues to some extent. It is important to understand that, with […]

I Think I Have Hearing Loss—Now What?

For most people, hearing loss occurs slowly over a long period of time. The slow onset of hearing loss means that many people don’t even notice they have hearing loss until the people around them point it out. For others, hearing loss comes on suddenly—even overnight. If you think you may have hearing loss, here […]

Hearing Damage – A Guide to Everyday Sounds

Human ears are amazing. From the loudest jet engine to the quietest pin drop, they capture a humongous range of sound. But like many fine-tuned machines, they can become damaged over time with too much use. Like car tires, the more you use your ears, the more you wear them down. Except you can’t replace […]

How Wearing Hearing Aids Positively Affects Your Mental Health

If you already wear hearing aids, you know the kinds of benefits they give you. Hearing aids have most likely made it easier to have conversations with your friends and family—especially when you’re out at restaurants or in a group. But hearing aids do much more than enrich your social life. They may actually have […]

How Hearing Aids Can Improve Your Overall Health

Most hearing aid owners wear their aids on a regular basis and discover the benefit they can provide to their lives and relationships. However, as many as 24% of hearing aid owners don’t wear their hearing aids as much as they should. But did you know that wearing your hearing aids can provide more benefits than just […]

Hearing Loss and Isolation

Why Offering a Hearing Health Benefit Is Essential in the Pandemic Rob Gibbs, SVP, Sales and Account Management, TruHearing When reports of COVID-19 first surfaced nearly a year ago, we never could have imagined the societal, cultural, economic and personal impacts that the virus would have globally. Nearly a year later, we are still adjusting […]

Tips to Improve Communication with Your Family After Hearing Loss

Once you recognize your hearing loss and you’ve addressed it with hearing aids, your next step to better hearing is better communication—especially with the people you are around everyday. Not only does it take time for you to adjust to wearing hearing aids, but it will take your family some adjustment time as well. However, […]

Noise Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL)

Here’s what you need to know about noise induced hearing loss or NIHL: The Three Causes of NIHL that Everyone Should Know* Intensity of SoundThe louder the volume, the more likely the sound will damage your hearing. PitchCombined with volume, the higher the pitch, the more likely your hearing will suffer. DurationThe longer you’re exposed […]

How hearing loss in the workplace can affect productivity

As signs of hearing loss build over time, frequent misses and mistakes can take a toll on workers and their employers in the form of reduced productivity. In its first annual “Hearing in the Workplace” survey, TruHearing, the market leader in hearing benefits, surveyed working individuals and explored the impact of untreated hearing loss on their productivity. The study found that almost all respondents reported significant challenges to doing their jobs prior to wearing hearing aids.

TruHearing partners with Amalgamated Life Insurance Company

TruHearing, the market leader in hearing products and solutions, is expanding access to hearing benefits through its recent partnership with Amalgamated Life Insurance Company, one of the nation’s leading providers of comprehensive insurance solutions. Amalgamated Life Insurance Company currently offers a wide range of group and voluntary benefits; this partnership integrates hearing products into their robust portfolio. With four of TruHearing’s group voluntary plans now being offered, Amalgamated Life can provide a range of options in hearing health services to its extensive customer base. Four plan options are currently available, ranging from discount plans to fully insured coverage.

TruHearing® achieves HITRUST® CSF certification

TruHearing, the market leader in hearing benefits, is proud to announce its Echo platform and supporting infrastructure, as well as its headquarters in Draper, Utah and colocation facility in Bluffdale, Utah, have achieved the HITRUST CSF Certification from HITRUST, an organization that champions programs that safeguard sensitive information and manage information risk for global organizations across all industries and throughout the third-party supply chain.

5 heartwarming hearing aid success stories

Thanks to everyone who entered our Love to Hear Sweepstakes. We enjoyed reading all your beautiful, heartwarming, and sometimes humorous stories about all the sounds you love to hear with your hearing aids.

Hearing aid savings for Highmark members

Starting in January, 2016, Highmark’s Medicare Advantage members with Freedom Blue PPO plans will be eligible for hearing aid coverage through TruHearing. Members will be eligible for coverage for a routine hearing exam, hearing aid fitting and evaluation, and two hearings aids per calendar year at significant cost savings.

Humana delivers affordable hearing aid benefit thanks to TruHearing® partnership

Medicare beneficiaries in select states will soon have better access to hearing examinations and affordable hearing aids thanks to Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM), a leading health and well-being company, teaming up with TruHearing, a hearing health care services and hearing aids company.

TruHearing Announces Addition of Cindy Dellecker to Advisory Board

Cindy Dellecker, former Senior Vice President of Senior Market and Health Plan Operations at Highmark Inc., has accepted a position on the TruHearing Advisory Board. Dellecker brings over 25 years of experience in managed care to TruHearing and will act as an advisor and consultant through TruHearing’s continued growth and expansion.

TruHearing Announces Addition of Jack Friedman to Board of Directors

Jack Friedman, CEO of Providence Health Plan, has accepted a position on the TruHearing Board of Directors. Friedman brings to the position over 20 years of experience in managed care and will advise and consult on strategic business initiatives and contribute to the continued growth of TruHearing in the healthcare industry. Friedman started serving on the board in November of 2014.

Blue365 Hear to Help Sweepstakes Winner!

“This has been an answer to our prayers,” says Kathy, who entered the Hear to Help Sweepstakes in the hope of winning a pair of hearing aids for her mother, Thelma. Thelma was diagnosed with hearing loss a number of years ago, but at the time she couldn’t justify the cost. “I noticed that in social situations, she was not able to hear. And she had a hard time understanding her grandchildren,” says Kathy. She was concerned that her mother’s hearing loss might lead to isolation. “My mother is a very social person,” she adds. “I want her to be able to enjoy social situations and share her grandchildren’s world with them.”

Hearing Benefit Solutions – I Heard a Bird Yesterday

“It’s actually two lives you’ve saved; his and mine!” Truhearing’s hearing benefit solutions keep you fully engaged in life by making hearing healthcare affordable and accessible. We love to be able to change lives and hear how our hearing benefits have helped those in need. The following is a thank you from one of our […]

Author: Josh Smith