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February 2012Of the 6 million people over age 55 who have hearing aids, 2.5 million are unhappy with their devices.
MIAMI BEACH — More and more options are emerging to help patients improve their hearing, a group of aural rehabilitation panelists said here on Jan. 27 at the Triological Society Combined Sections Meeting.
Hearing loss is the third most common chronic health care issue in the U.S., a fact that is “just amazing to me,” said moderator Jennifer Derebery, MD, clinical professor of otolaryngology at the University of Southern California School of Medicine and a neurotologist associate at House Ear Clinic in Los Angeles.
“We all know that the workhorse treatment of hearing loss is the hearing aid, and yet the prevalence of individuals who need hearing aids and actually obtain them has been flat for decades,” she said.