I've worked with a number of elders here as I was helping them adjust hearing aids or be fit with new pieces. The elders I'm working with along with their spouses are much less apprehensive about doing things with hearing aids on their own. For instance, I've had a couple individuals whom I needed to show how to cut tubing on their own because they forgot aids here and I'm not about to have them fly back in for a 2 minute appointment with me. Back home, so many patients and spouses were almost terrified to do anything to the aids or molds, here I haven't had a single person balk. Not sure why, maybe they're just used to doing so much more on their own without assistance from someone else (professional anything) or maybe the sticker shock and subsequent over-care just isn't a factor since so many are getting their aids paid for by another agency or insurance.
Not really sure why, but it is what it is.
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