{"id":3374,"date":"2012-07-06T07:41:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T15:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.everhear.com\/?p=3374"},"modified":"2012-07-06T07:41:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T15:41:24","slug":"improved-hearing-leads-to-better-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/improved-hearing-leads-to-better-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"Improved Hearing Leads to Better Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tIn a recent study titled &#8220;Hearing is Living,&#8221; conducted by Phonak&#8217;s Hear the World initiative, discussed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hearingreview.com\/insider\/2012-06-28_09.asp\">Healthy Hearing<\/a>, it was found that people with hearing loss enjoy a better relationship with their family and friends, taking more pleasure in communal activities as a result of wearing a hearing instrument.\u00a0The study questioned more than 4,300 people in Germany, France, Switzerland, Great Britain, and the United States to obtain their data.<\/p>\n<p>The key findings of the study include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>73% of the people with hearing loss who were surveyed report their relationship with their family improved since they started wearing a hearing aid.<\/li>\n<li>78% claim that their hearing aids have a positive effect on their relationship with friends and make communal activities more enjoyable again.<\/li>\n<li>41% of the hearing instrument users surveyed who suffer from moderate to severe hearing loss indicated that they have a large circle of friends.<\/li>\n<li>By contrast, only 27% of the people who have the same degree of hearing loss, but do not wear a hearing instrument, agreed that they have a large circle of friends.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition the researchers found that family members also benefited from realatives&#8217; use of hearing instruments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>41% of the relatives surveyed stated that their own lives have improved when their family member got a hearing aid.<\/li>\n<li>62% of the hearing aid users surveyed report that since they started wearing a hearing aid, their hearing loss is no longer an issue among their family and friends.<\/li>\n<li>86% feel that their friends accept them just as they are.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A great study showing the power of hearing, and the importance in optimizing the hearing that we have.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent study titled &#8220;Hearing is Living,&#8221; conducted by Phonak&#8217;s Hear the World initiative, discussed in Healthy Hearing, it was found that people with hearing loss enjoy a better relationship with their family and friends, taking more pleasure in communal activities as a result of wearing a hearing instrument.\u00a0The study questioned more than 4,300&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Improved Hearing Leads to Better Relationship","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","schema":"","fname":"","lname":"","position":"","credentials":"","placeID":"","no_match":false,"name":"","company":"","review":"","address":"","city":"","state":"","zip":"","lat":"","lng":"","phone1":"","phone2":"","fax":"","mon1":"","mon2":"","tue1":"","tue2":"","wed1":"","wed2":"","thu1":"","thu2":"","fri1":"","fri2":"","sat1":"","sat2":"","sun1":"","sun2":"","hours-note":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[874,12,19,20,875,186],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}