{"id":6740,"date":"2018-04-19T19:09:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T19:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/?p=6740"},"modified":"2018-04-19T19:18:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T19:18:24","slug":"enhance-your-quality-of-life-with-better-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/enhance-your-quality-of-life-with-better-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Enhance Your Quality of Life with Better Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May is Better Hearing and Speech Month, and Health New England is working to raise awareness of the importance of healthy hearing. Treating hearing loss can increase your self-confidence, help you enjoy social activities more, and improve your relationships with your loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>A study by the National Council on Aging (NCOA)<sup style=\"font-size: 10px; line-height: 0; vertical-align: 5px;\">1<\/sup> found that people with hearing loss who wore hearing aids reported better overall feelings about themselves than those who didn\u2019t treat their loss.<\/p>\n<p>The same study found that wearing hearing aids can enhance your enjoyment of group social activities. Noisy environments can be very difficult when you have hearing loss, but new hearing aid technology makes it easier to hear and understand those around you, so social activities can be enjoyable again.<\/p>\n<p>Hearing aid wearers participating in the study reported overall improvements in their relationships at home, experienced less anger and frustration, and had better emotional health and stability.<\/p>\n<p>If you suspect you have hearing loss, take time to get your hearing checked. As a Health New England Medicare Advantage member, you have a hearing aid benefit through TruHearing. Learn about your hearing aid benefit on our website at <a href=\"http:\/\/healthnewengland.org\/medicare\/truhearing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">healthnewengland.org\/medicare\/truhearing or by calling TruHearing at (844) 319-7458<b>.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup style=\"font-size: 10px; line-height: 0; vertical-align: 5px;\">1<\/sup>&#8220;Quantifying the Obvious: The Impact of Hearing Instruments on Quality of Life.&#8221; National Council on Aging. Full report available at <span style=\"font-family: Museo Sans 500,Museo Sans 500; font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.betterhearing.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.betterhearing.org<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May is Better Hearing and Speech Month, and Health New England is working to raise awareness of the importance of healthy hearing. Treating hearing loss can increase your self-confidence, help you enjoy social activities more, and improve your relationships with your loved ones. A study by the National Council on Aging (NCOA)1 found that people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":6741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicare"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GettyImages-504036281-e1524164943340.jpg?fit=800%2C533&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZZGa-1KI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6740"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6747,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6740\/revisions\/6747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}