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Key messages about hearing loss and hearing aids
Listening in a noisy background
- This is more difficult whether you have a hearing loss or not
- For people with hearing loss, this is much more difficult
- This is often the main problem of people with hearing loss
Hearing aids
- Help improve hearing
- Are usually more effective in quiet situations than in noisy environments
- Amplify all sounds; those in the background as well as the person speaking
- Make sounds louder but sounds may still be distorted or unclear
- Do not return hearing to 'normal'
Listening in a noisy background
- This is more difficult whether you have a hearing loss or not
- But for people with hearing loss, this is much more difficult
- This is often the main problem of people with hearing loss
Hearing aids
- Amplify all sounds, those in the background as well as the person speaking
- Do not return hearing to normal