Subject: Hearing Care and Wellness: Toward Hearing Health for All
As many as 75 to 80% of adults in the US with hearing difficulties do not avail themselves of hearing healthcare in a timely manner, despite impacts on daily life and healthy aging. Many barriers contribute to this gross underutilization. Many of these barriers also create and amplify disparities in hearing healthcare availability and utilization. A national movement over the last decade and a half to improve access and affordability of hearing healthcare for adults has included intensification of research to understand the trajectory, consequences, and associations of hearing loss. The symposium hosted by the Knowles Hearing Center at Northwestern University will assemble some of the foremost experts to discuss many aspects of hearing, hearing loss, and hearing health.
🗓️ Date: October 24, 2025
⏰ Time: 7:45am – 4:45pm (CT)
đź“Ť Location: Hilton Orrington 1710 Orrington Evanston, IL
Hearing aids are an effective way to treat hearing loss. Until recently, people could only get hearing aids from a clinician trained to diagnose and treat hearing loss, such as an audiologist. People with perceived mild or moderate hearing difficulty can now buy hearing aids without seeing an audiologist. But people may need help getting the right fit. Fitting a hearing aid is the process of adjusting the hearing aid to meet a person’s needs, both in the way it fits in the ear and the way it sounds.
In this study, the results showed that Consumer Decides and Efficient Fitting weren’t worse than Audiology-Based Usual Care in improving everyday speech communication and emotional and social health. We recently hosted a webinar that explained further the findings of the study. The recording can be found in the P-Chat website.Â