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who use hearing aids is declining. In 1984, 23.8% of hearing-impaired Americans used hearing aids. In 1991, the percentage was 22.6 and in 1997 it had declined to 20.4%.
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In 1999, another American survey which was preventing hearing loss prepared by the 'National Council of the Aging'covering 2,300 Americans who suffered from hearing impairment found that six out of seven Americans aged 45 to 64 suffered from hearing loss, and three out of five people above preventing hearing loss the age of 65 suffered from hearing loss but did not use hearing aids. Expensive to leave hearing loss untreated Untreated hearing loss is estimated to cost US $ 56 billion in the USA and Euro preventing hearing loss 92 billion in the EU - each year. Nobody knows the savings or costs for society in connection with treating or not treating hearing loss. The Better Hearing preventing hearing loss Institute in the USA has published an estimate of the annual costs due to lost productivity, special education and medical care as a result of untreated hearing loss which amounts to US $ 56 billion per year or the equivalent capita of preventing hearing loss $ 216. The figure is not scientifically documented, but it is one of the few figures that are avaible. If this estimate is applied to Europe, too, the annual cost for the EU countries would amount to 92 billion Euro – [Email: info@hear-it.org] |