Summer travel often means staying in a hotel or motel room, or in a succession of hotels if you’re on a tour. It can be a great luxury, but especially if you’re moving from one place to another every few days, it can get confusing. I’m sure every one of us has left something in … Continue reading Safer Summer Travel

Everything you always wanted to know about hearing loss.... now in one slim volume! Living Better With Hearing Loss: A Guide to Health, Happiness, Love, Sex, Work, Friends ... and Hearing Aids is now available at any bookseller in paper or as an ebook. As the subtitle says, it covers everything about hearing loss -- and hearing … Continue reading Everything You Always Wanted to Know …..

To read about the newly improved -- and the yet to be addressed -- issues of airplane travel for people with hearing loss, click here:  Navigating That Airport Scrum -- With Hearing Loss. Tips and tricks for making that trip a whole lot easier.

In general, summer is easier on the ears than winter, because many of us spend time outdoors and enjoying leisure activities that tend to be quieter than some winter pursuits. But don’t be lulled into thinking your hearing is safe. Click here to read about five of the most damaging sources of summer noise exposure, and … Continue reading It’s Summertime, and the Livin’ is Noisy……

Do you love the theater but rarely go because you can’t understand the dialogue or lyrics? Fortunately there are several solutions to this problem beyond the familiar infrared headphones that many theaters offer. And those with hearing loss can even get discount tickets to many shows. First, about infrared. Theaters that seat more than 50 people … Continue reading Four Show-Stopping Ways to Hear Better at the Theater.

As my mother got older, our roles reversed, as they will when a parent reaches the ninth and even 10th decade. But there was one way in which she grew stronger, while I grew weaker. She could hear, and I couldn’t. In her 80s, my mother’s mind and body succumbed to aging. She developed dementia, … Continue reading Role Reversal: My Aging Mother Could Hear But I Couldn’t

What makes Daredevil so appealing? Netflix debuted its original series “Daredevil” this month, starring Charlie Cox as the blind superhero created by Marvel comics back in 1964. Daredevil, aka lawyer Matt Murdock, grew up with his single dad, a mid-level boxer, in Hell’s Kitchen. An accident involving radioactive waste left him blind as a boy. (Luckily, … Continue reading A Flawed Superhero Can be a Powerful Role Model

If you’re finding it hard to hear what your companions are saying in a restaurant or at a party, it’s time to get your hearing checked. The inability to hear speech in a noisy environment is one of the first signs of hearing loss, and although it may bother you only in certain situations, it’s not … Continue reading Can’t Hear in a Restaurant? Ignore it now, pay for it later.

When I got my first pair of glasses at age 6, they were big, clunky things that covered a third of my face and were heavy in the bargain. As soon as I was old enough, I traded them in for contact lenses. Nowadays, eyeglasses are not just stylish, they’re downright chic. Sophia Loren started the … Continue reading Hearing Aids as Fashion Accessory