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Should You Buy Hearing Aids from Costco vs. Jacobs Audiology – What’s The Difference?
With so many people incorrectly believing that the solution to a hearing loss is a set of hearing aids, we regularly receive phone calls from people asking if we can price match Costco. The problem is, it’s not an apples vs. apples comparison. Whereas Costco sells...
Why Do So Many People Have an Untreated Hearing Loss?
The team at Jacobs Audiology feels elated each time they provide excellent hearing care services to patients at the Bowie and Southern Maryland clinics. But this is always tinged with sadness as most people wait an average of ten years before seeking the right help...
Why Have Face Masks Created Problems for People with Hearing Loss?
Often, we have no idea how much we rely on visual cues to understand what's being said. It's true of the deaf as well as the hard of hearing. Since face masks have become mandatory in most places, a new challenge has arisen for the hard of hearing community. It has...
How to Use ReSound’s Remote & Live Assist Features with Ease
New technology has become an integral part of society. If we weren’t already accustomed to it before the pandemic, we definitely are now! It’s easy to reject technology, especially when it’s new, but when it is used as an aid in resources, communication, and...
Hearing Tests: A Walkthrough of Your First Visit
Putting off treatment for hearing loss has the potential to produce devastating consequences to your mental and physical health, according to studies by Johns Hopkins University. The first step to getting help for your condition is a hearing test, but many put it off...
How to Clean your Hearing Aids at Home
Each year, about 4 million people make a substantial investment into better hearing through hearing aids. This amazing bit of technology produces life-changing experiences related to relationships, lifestyle choices, and successful careers. Because over time, dirt,...
New Hearing Aids? Here’s What You Can Expect
If you have ever had to get used to new eyeglasses or dental appliances, then you understand that hearing aids also require a period of adjustment. Various mental, emotional, and physical effects come with breaking in new hearing aids. To ease my patients through the...
Untreated Hearing Loss: Are You Aware of The First Signs?
In the early stages of hearing loss, most people don’t even realize that they are having a problem. The onset is so gradual, sort of like watching grass grow, that most hearing loss goes untreated until it becomes a significant mental and physical health issue....
4 Ways an Audiologist Can Help You
OTC hearing aid sales have reached an all-time high in relationship to an increase in the number of American adults suffering from hearing loss. The National Institute of Health (NIS) reports that 37.5 million adults or approximately 15% of the U.S. population have...