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112 Detroit Jewish News

RUTHAN BRODSKY
Special to The Jewish News

EC

ehe read a newspaper. "I hadn't heard
the sound of turning pages in a long
time. It was an awful racket. The
noise from the dishwasher was an
even greater surprise.
"Fortunately, my audiologist
advised me not to wear the aids
when I go to a wedding or a large
gathering because I wouldn't be able
to handle the noise. On the other
hand, a whole new world has
opened for me, hearing my grand-
child call me Bubbie or listening to
the quiet sounds of nature while
hiking in the Smokies."
Steve Goff is an audiologist, a
trained professional specializing in

earing loss is one of the
more common disorders
that happens with aging.
What's more, signs of
hearing loss can begin early in middle
age — the 40s and 50s.
Indeed, hearing loss is the third
leading chronic
medical com-
plaint among
older adults,
after arthritis and
high blood pres-
sure, affecting
about one-third
of the people in
the United States
between ages 56
and 74 and more
than half of
those over 85.
Often creating
major problems
are people suc-
cumbing to the
stigma of wear-
ing hearing aids
and refusing to
do so. They are
often described
as confused, for-
getful, and losing
their mental acu-
ity when the pri-
mary reason is
they didn't hear
all the directions,
the information,
or the complete
conversation.
Exacerbating the dilemma is
testing and rehabilitation of
Dr. Steve Go
that hearing aids don't help
hearing. He has his own pri-
exam ines a
everyone. What's more, for
vate practice and also works
patie nt's ear.
those whose hearing is
with ENT physicians/oto-
improved, the sounds are nothing like
laryngologists, specialists in ear, nose
what they once knew.
and throat as well as head and neck
"The sound from a hearing aid is
treatment.
abominable," declares Rose Fox of
Many things contribute to hearin
West Bloomfield who has been wear-
loss, "such as being exposed to steady
ing hearing aids for 20 years. "It's not
noise at work — construction,
the same hearing you remember when
machinery, dentistry, snowmobiling,
you were young. The sounds bom-
motor boating, or from playing in a
bard the brain and there are times
loud rock band," explains Goff.
when you have to shield yourself
"Hearing loss can also take place
from all the noise."
because of a head injury, a stroke, an
Fox was shocked the first time she
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wore her hearing aid and heard some-