If you answer yes to more than one of these questions, you may be one of the approximately 20 million Americans who are considered to be hearing impaired. Age-related hearing loss will ultimately happen to everyone, it just affects some of us earlier than it does others.
Ears have a tendency to be like the family car.
Sometimes they just don t work, they get damaged, or they simply wear out. Statistics indicate that, for many people, the loss of hearing begins at about age 55. If one or both of your parents had hearing difficulties relatively early in life, the odds are pretty good that you will experience some hearing impairment by the time your middle 50 s roll around. The human ear is an amazing mechanism, but not as efficient as those belonging to some of our friends in the animal kingdom. Some foxes, for example, have the ability to direct their outer ear to detect even ants moving underground.