Patient Resources
Caring For The Caregiver
As we age, our bodies and minds (alas, unlike a fine wine) diminish from their peaks. Time is the great equalizer. When grown children see and experience a parent's inevitable decline, this truth can be especially hard to bear. For most of our lives, our parents are...
An Audiologist’s Least Favorite Hearing Aids
In audiology, we use acronyms to describe different types or styles of hearing aids. There are ITE (custom in-the-ear), BTE (behind-the-ear), CIC (custom completely-in-canal) and RIC (receiver-in-canal) hearing aids. My least favorite are ITDs, in-the-drawer hearing...
The Importance Of Listening
I’ve always loved this time of the year. A time of new beginnings--from the start of school to the start of basketball season (Go, Purdue! Go Warriors!). It’s also the beginning of the Jewish year. Every year, about this time, Jews worldwide celebrate what is known as...
Cognitive Screening at Berkeley Hearing Center
Recently, there has been an increasing interest in the correlation between hearing loss and cognitive decline. It appears that this applies not only to the elderly patient in a nursing home but also to midlife hearing loss in average people. The key takeaway message...
Private Practice Versus ‘Big Box’ Stores
It's no big secret that hearing aids are expensive. In the Bay Area, prices for a pair of the highest-level technology hearing aids can exceed $8000! It is this seemingly exorbitant price that encouraged 'Big Box' stores (Costco, Sam's Club, Sears, etc.) to get into...
So, You’re Finally Going To Do Something About Getting Your Hearing Checked
You've known for a while that you don't hear as well as you used to, but you've been getting by. However, your family or friends may be 'suggesting' you go get your hearing checked. ou're finding it harder to enjoy television or movies because it's a little more...
Noise Induced Hearing Loss & Its Prevention
Noise Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL) is a public health issue that affects millions of people every year. It is an equal opportunity problem, affecting all ages. It doesn't distinguish between skin color, sexual orientation, rich or poor. Because we live in the modern...
Healthy Eating For Your Ears!
What we put into our bodies, from food/drinks to prescription/non-prescription medications, affects how our bodies work. From a young age, we are taught to eat healthfully-carrots for good eyesight, spinach for building muscle, drinking milk for strong bones, etc. But...
Should You Wait For Medicare To Pay For Your Hearing Aids?
Late last year, we had a couple of patients postpone their evaluation of amplification because they wanted to wait to see if Medicare would pay for some/all of their expenses. This was because of legislation that was wending its way through Congress. On November 19,...
How We Are Keeping You Safe During The Recent Omicron Outbreak
Dear Berkeley Hearing Center Family, Given the recent surge of the highly transmissible Omicron variant, we wanted to share with you the renewed precautions that we are taking in the office to keep you (and all of us) safe. Our collective safety is the top...
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