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Time is most ruthless, and aging is also an inevitable natural law of life.Along with the increase in age, the human body will experience normal physiological degradation, increasing wrinkles and loose teeth. Due to the degenerative changes in the nerve endings of the inner ear, hearing loss is also prone to occur. These are normal physiological degradation.

Many elderly people wear glasses when their eyesight is dazzled, but their hearing loss is unwilling to use themHearing aidDo you all understand why the elderly have this kind of psychology?

After hearing loss, the elderly usually experience the following stages of psychological development:

Phase XNUMX: Denial

In the early stages of hearing loss, most elderly people believe that hearing loss will not affect their health, so they deny the fact of hearing loss.

In fact, denial is a staged manifestation of defensive psychology.For patients with senile hearing loss in this period, we need to put ourselves in a position to understand their plight, and help the elderly to actively pass the “denial” stage, rather than forcing them to make changes.

Phase XNUMX: Passive acceptance

With the passage of time, the elderly’s view of treating diseases will gradually change from denial psychology to passive acceptance psychology.They believe that physical changes such as invisible and inaudible are facts that inevitably occur with age.

However, passive acceptance does not mean that they are willing to make changes, and most patients with senile hearing loss are still reluctant to take intervention measures.

The mentality of accepting hearing loss calmly but not willing to take the initiative to treat it is the fundamental reason why the elderly lose confidence and are unwilling to make any improvements to hearing loss.

For patients with senile hearing loss in this period, family members and audiologists will face more communication and exchanges, popularize more popular science knowledge for the elderly in this period, and subconsciously make them aware of the importance of early intervention.

The third stage: self-image maintenance

At this stage, although the elderly have accepted the fact of their hearing loss, due to appearance and appearance considerations, some elderly hearing loss patients believe that wearing hearing aids will make them look “different from ordinary people”, and they do not want to be affected by hearing aids. Change your image.

In other words, when they find that they are gradually losing their social status, participating in fewer and fewer social activities, unable to keep up with the trend of the times, and surrounding friends have died one after another, they will consciously maintain their self-image and are unwilling to make changes to the surrounding environment. Change.

With the continuous development of hearing aid technology, in-ear hearing aids such as ITC, CIC, and IIC have long become effective solutions. Modern digital hearing aids have not only improved in performance, but also become smaller and more fashionable in appearance.

Family members can understand with the guidance and help of an audiologistHearing aid, So as to make an objective and effective choice for patients with senile hearing loss.

Physical changes, psychological changes, emotional changes and many other factors affect the elderly people’s unwillingness to admitHearing loss“The reason for the unwillingness to take active measures.”

We should fully grasp the psychological changes of the elderly and guide them through understanding, communication, and interaction.

In this way, people with senile hearing loss can change from passive to active, wear hearing aids as soon as possible, and avoid the impact of hearing loss on life as soon as possible.