Hearing Loss And Hearing Loss

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Social isolation, Suspiciousness and rejection

Hearing loss interferes with the simplest type of communication between people and influences daily activities as information cannot be exchanged. As a result, loneliness and isolation may make older adults feel secluded from others since hearing loss influences the quality of life owing to the absence of social relationships (Miller, 2009). For example, social isolation worsens a person’s feelings of low self-worth, shame, loneliness, depression, and other mental health concerns (Aberdeen and Fereiro, 2014). Thus, hearing impairment create greater life changes something that older persons are already experiencing (Mental Health Foundation,

Henceforth, significantly destroying seniors’ regular lives (Rosenhall, 2015). As hearing loss is related to age, so it is a challenging issue with changing population demographics in the developed countries (Weinsten, 2012). For instance, older adults experience a negative emotional state associated with the invisible handicap as hearing loss often ignored during diagnosis (Krieger, 2008). If someone is confused or acts depressed thus may represent a psychological problem or dementia rather than hearing loss itself (Peelle, 2015). One of the challenges and frustrations of a person with hearing loss is to be understood; as hearing loss interferes with the person to person communication, older people miss out with family and friends (AT et al., 2015). As seniors may think the conversation is held in a whisper tone or have concerns that

As this offers the seniors to exert influence and to help others by reflecting, listening and also, advice. Communication is not only about sharing and transferring information but also improving relationships (Rhees et al., 2011). Therefore, if something affects the communication, the relationship or the social life impacted as well (Cooper and Cosnell, 2014). The effective communication includes the effort of everyone involved, irrespective that the person uses hearing aids. Henceforth; proper communication approaches during conversation are considered (Hindle and Coates, 2011). Meller (2009) stresses that there is a vast difference between hearings and listening attentively. When one pays attention carefully; it helps the hearing impaired person heard and understood, for this strengthened a deeper and stronger connection, claims (Rhees et al., 2011). In doing so; one will experience a process that reduces stress in supports of emotional well-being. Similarly, Merola et al., (2014) strongly emphasise that effective communication is simply a matter of communicating respectfully, such as to gain the listener’s attention, use body language, use of lip-reading, deliver words precisely and to use nonverbal signals matches the phrases, etc. Similarly, communication rehabilitation programs and sessions are necessary to provide training