1998- Everyone over the age of 18 usually has some hearing loss but the extent of it and how quickly it deteriorates is quite variable.
Damage can affect different areas in the inner ear resulting in a variety of symptoms.
Others may experience a moderate loss of all frequencies, resulting in greater difficulty in understanding all speech. The basic treatment for presbycusis is amplification, usually hearing aids. Advances in technology even allow hearing aids to distinguish sounds so only certain speech patterns are amplified, for example. Often people are disappointed when they first try a hearing aid because the sound is distorted. Although every effort has been made to ensure that data is current, please note that some information may be outdated by more recent medical developments.