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With more than 30 years of expertise when it comes to hearing improvement, Swift Audiology’s Debra Swift admits that the world of hearing devices can be an enormously confusing sea of choices for those with hearing difficulties.
However, that same expertise allows her to help her patients cut through the confusion to obtain a personalized solution that’s convenient, calibrated, customized and affordable.
Confusion and fear of making the wrong choice in a hearing healthcare professional and spending money on something they think they don’t want to wear, keeps those in need from seeking help. Swift Audiology removes those fears with a family-focused, patient-driven experience that offers no obligation trials, liberal return and exchange periods, and most importantly, highly trained and caring hearing professionals who provide excellence in follow-up care.
Swift Audiology provides rehabilitative counseling, verification testing and sets good practices, both at home and in our office visits, after the fitting in order for the patient to experience a lifetime of better hearing.
Hearing is a brain function. The ears are the pathway and that pathway becomes damaged due to noise, aging, illnesses, medications and even hereditary factors. Almost 95 percent of hearing loss is sensorineural (nerve loss), and medical hearing devices are the only course of action to make up for the damaged hair cells (nerve).
Hearing devices relay the missing information (sound) to the brain so that the brain can cognitively process speech and the sounds of the world that keep us acclimated and in communication with people. This process is aural rehabilitation and it is a process that takes time.
Adults with hearing loss are significantly more likely than adults with normal hearing to develop dementia, according to a new study from researchers at Johns Hopkins and the National Institute on Aging. We have certainly seen the relationship between hearing loss and dementia for years in our practice.
How can we remember what we don’t hear or understand clearly? The brain slows cognitively and it takes extra effort to understand conversations which is not only tiring, but frustrating and embarrassing. This impacts the person’s self-confidence and sense of well-being, according to a National Council on Aging study. This study has also shown that hearing difficulties can lead to isolation and depression. Wearing hearing devices daily can help reverse these effects and maintain healthy cognitive processing.
“We set realistic expectations with patients during the evaluation, fitting and counseling programs. We want everyone to know what to expect and have a positive and healthy experience with the hearing devices,” says Swift.
This is important for patient happiness.
With Swift’s maintenance and care programs, which include lifetime cleanings, free batteries and professional support, patients not only hear at their optimal level, they can go about their lives without worry about their investment. They know they are going to be taken care of.
“Not having the extended services that Swift offers is one of the reasons why so many hearing devices end up in drawers,” Swift says. “A good provider will set you up on a program to cover all of these things on an ongoing basis. Then, you have value and benefit for the cost.”
There is no replacement for a physician when it comes to health care, just as there is no replacement for a hearing healthcare professional when it comes to better hearing. Debra and her staff of Audiologists and Board Certified Hearing Instrument Specialists are here to help you get back to hearing better and enjoying your life to its fullest.
Our evaluation appointments are complimentary, call Swift Audiology to review what opportunities are available to you. Call 724-705-1598 today.