Helping the Elderly
As time goes by people age and our physical, sensory, cognitive capacities decline.
Hearing loss caused by aging is known as presbycusis. It manifests itself little by little and imperceptibly and after a while we realize that it is difficult for us to understand speech. It is estimated that about 30% of people over 60 years of age have some type of hearing loss, increasing to 90% in those over 80 years of age. It is a poorly diagnosed deficiency that is attributed to age or lack of concentration. Despite these figures, it is very common that due to ignorance and the family's lack of time and many times also lack of resources, the hearing aid is not consulted or requested.
Presbycusis is a type of hearing impairment (age-related hearing loss) that mainly affects the inner ear, specifically the outer hair cells and their structures.
Why is hearing lost?
Hearing levels begin to decline from the moment the human being is born.
There are many factors such as chemical, physical pollutants and also noise. The most important causes for hearing loss are genetics, medications and bad habits.
Elderly patients generally present certain diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure and thyroid among others; All these diseases are already a cause for hearing impairment and when this happens the affected person presents another type of problem that already becomes psychological because it is locked in its world of silence. If you can no longer participate in meetings or talk, depression and frustration do not wait.
Our proposal: Provide these people with hearing aids.
Aimed at people who are in asylums and in a state of abandonment or cannot afford a hearing aid, after an audiometric evaluation, one or two hearing aids will be adapted depending on each case.
According to studies carried out, we found out that 80% of old people with this disability just cease to communicate; such people who were abandoned in an asylum, no longer know whom their relatives are whilst they only know their everyday Asylum mates but cannot communicate and are in sound isolation through such impairment.