It's World Hearing Day today and the beginning of Hearing Awareness Week! Today aims to raise awareness into the high cost that unaddressed hearing loss can have on individuals (cognitive decline and depression, reduced productivity, barrier to education and social integration) as well as to the wider community (lost productivity, impact on health services, individual lost employment resulting in lost taxes).
If you feel you're not hearing as well as you used to, it may be time to review your hearing. Contact the clinic today to arrange an appointment with one of our audiologists. For more reading: http://www.hcia.com.au/hcia-wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Social-and-Economic-Cost-of-Hearing-Health-in-Australia_June-2017.pdf http://www.hearingawarenessweek.org.au/ Comments are closed.
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