Older people shouldn’t play down any hearing problems, nor should they be ashamed of them.
Nevertheless, lots of people refuse help for this issue and end up suffering serious consequences as a result.
Everyone experiences some form of hearing loss as they get older.
Sometimes it begins as early as a person’s 40s, other times, it’s not until they’re between 60 and 65.
”I’m sure there’s no one who still hears normally at the age of 90,” says Dr Christian Betz, director of the ear, nose and throat department at the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany.