The latest
visitors to Hucknall Rotary Club’s weekly meeting were the Hearcare team from
Specsavers. Rotarians discovered that
Specsavers not only looks after eyes, but can help with hearing too. After listening to a presentation delivered
by Chris Oxley about how the ear works and how hearing loss occurs, members
participated in a fun quiz which showed how much they had learnt from the
talk.
The quiz, in a ‘Connect
4’ format had the Hucknall Rotarians split into two teams for the multiple
choice answers that were offered. The
red team’s PP Ivan Manning gave an answer only to be overruled by the rest of
his team. When Ivan’s response turned
out to be the correct option, cries of “I told you so,” could be heard in
London! When the red team got their
second question wrong, Ivan took advantage of the transfer window and joined
the victorious yellow team.
Afterwards Chris and his colleagues, Matt Baker and Janet Archer
offered hearing loss tests and advice to the club members. One in six adults in the UK experiences
some degree of hearing loss. For most people, hearing begins to deteriorate
from the mid-thirties. It usually develops slowly over time and because of this
you may not realize that it is getting worse. This is because the small,
sensitive hair-like cells within the inner ear get worn out over the
years. When this happens you don’t
simply go deaf, but it becomes more and more difficult to understand sounds
clearly, particularly speech, and that can be even trickier if there is
background sound.
Modern digital hearing aids are
designed to identify and amplify speech sounds while suppressing background
noise so with the right advice, practice and prescription most people find they
can hear well again in most if not all situations. The sooner you take action
the better the results will be. If any
reader is concerned about your hearing, please
contact Specsavers and book a test with one of their qualified hearing professionals
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