The Deaf with Advanced Age and Hearing Aid

Abstract

Presbyacusis is a kind of hard of hearing which every body takes but there are many stages in severity. There is no other way of curing it except the use of hearing aid.
Many who use hearing aid all day are usually found in a group with hearing loss more than 50dB at low tone, and also many who use it some times are mostly found in a group with that less than 50dB. There are many of those with hearing loss more or less than 50dB who do not have will to use hearing aid because of troublesome in using it.
Many of those using hearing aid all day do not use only it becausse of the reason that they can carry conversation easier but because they can manage to catch the voice with it when they are not able to hear the tone without it. Therefore, there is a tendency that many deaf with more severe hearing loss than the so-called indications of hearing aid often use it. The harder the hearing loss has the more the necessity of hearing aid and the more times of using it.
Even with the hearing aid, some of the persons with severe hearing loss can not carry conversation easily from the beginning, auditory training makes it possible. The most of the deaf less effective with hearing aid need a longer period of auditory training.
In order to decide the indications for use of hearing aid, effectiveness of hearing aid in the individual should be judged first of all and his own will and the co-operation of his surrounding for auditory training have to be judged at the same time.