Age Related Hearing Loss

By age 65 about one third of the population Has enough hearing loss to wear hearing aids. The single factor that makes the biggest difference in ease of communication is signal to noise Ratio where the signal is what you want to hear and the noise is everything else. Anything that a person can do to boost the signal or lower the noise to separate those two Enhances communication. It's just recognizing it now They doesn't have the opportunity to do so.