Your life may get a whole lot easier once you start wearing hearing aids, but you may still struggle a little with your hearing in certain situations. For example, you may find it hard at work. If you work in a noisy environment and use the phone a lot, then you may have some difficulties.
Hearing aids that come with a Bluetooth connection may help. These aids use wireless technology to boost their features and functions. How will this new hearing aid technology help you at work?
Better Sound Stability
Digital hearing aids can be affected by the environment they are used in. For example, they may sometimes lose their signal if there is interference on the signal's channel. External devices like mobile phones and some types of office equipment may also sometimes interfere with sound in the ear. You may get feedback or an irritating whistling or buzzing noise in your ears if this happens. Also, if you have a lot of people around you, then you may find it uncomfortable when things get a bit noisy. You may hear background noises you don't need to hear and lose sounds, like those in a conversation, that are more important.
Adding Bluetooth to an aid may give you more stability. Bluetooth-enabled hearing aids tend to use more than one signal channel. So, if one drops out, another one kicks in. These aids also typically deliver a better quality of sound and are less likely to be affected by external devices.
Help Using Phones
Using both landline and mobile phones can sometimes be tricky if you wear hearing aids. While this may not be a problem for you at home, the extra noise you get at work may make it harder for you to hear what someone is saying on the phone all the time. Bluetooth hearing aids have a solution for this. For example, you can set your hearing aid to receive calls directly. This works on mobile phones and on compatible landline phones that have a hearing aid connection. So, rather than having to struggle to hear through a handset, you can take calls hands-free. You can hear a caller's voice directly through your hearing aids.
If you think that a Bluetooth hearing aid may be a good bet, talk to your clinic. They can tell you more about how Bluetooth works and other benefits you may get from hearing aid technology.
