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Regardless of whether you’re 48 or 78, we’re here to help you regain your hearing and join in with the conversations you’ve been missing out on

Should I Get My Hearing Tested in My 50s?

07/14/2024 | Hearing Tests, Patient Resources

If you’re reading this, perhaps you’ve been experiencing some hearing loss challenges recently.  

You’re not alone—hearing loss can affect anyone, regardless of their age. Almost 38 million American adults aged 18 and over report some trouble hearing, and hearing challenges have only become more common as technology has improved. 

No two individuals are the same in what care they need for their ears, and hearing care isn’t out of reach if you’re not of a certain age. Regardless of whether you’re 48 or 78, we’re here to help you regain your hearing and join back in with the conversations you’ve been missing out on. 

How Can Hearing Care Help Me? 

Hearing loss can be scary, isolating, and troubling to realize that you’re dealing with. However, it’s also remarkably easy to treat with the right professional hearing care. 

Even just one hearing test can help you understand your current range of hearing and see how it changes over time—our hearing gradually deteriorates quite naturally as we age, a process called presbycusis, or age-related hearing loss. 

But hearing loss challenges can affect us much younger, too, especially with technology improving over the years; noise-induced hearing loss has become the second most common form of hearing loss, due to loud noises damaging our hearing over prolonged listening. 

Professional hearing care and, where needed, hearing aids, can help you join back in with the conversation, get active in your life, and stay healthy and happy for as long as you can. 

I’ve seen plenty of people of all sorts of ages come in to see us, feeling skeptical and unsure that hearing care is really what they need to help what they’re dealing with—but they always leave our clinic feeling confident, with a spring in their step and a plan for their hearing health journey in hand. 

Of course, we understand why people feel unsure. The idea of wearing hearing aids from a young age can be embarrassing for some people, afraid of looking old. But those stigmas around hearing aids are changing; there are many more young people taking care of their hearing sooner than later. 

Advanced hearing aid technology isn’t the same as the clunky, awkward devices of old. Today’s technology is more discreet and more powerful—and much less likely to attract attention like your grandparents’ devices did!  

It’s hard to realize that you need help, but by reading this, you’re already headed in the right direction. 

Concerned About Your Hearing? 

Our team of professional hearing care specialists are here to help you with any and all hearing health concerns.

We’re happy to answer any questions you might have about hearing care, hearing aids, and more—there’s no such thing as a silly question! 

Simply request a callback to find out more, and we’ll get back to you with more information. 

Don’t want to wait? Find your closest clinic and call us in: 

Fall River: 508-674-3334
Centerville: 508-862-0255
Dartmouth: 508-910-2221
Falmouth: 508-674-3334

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Nancy Duncan, Au.D.

Dr. Nancy Duncan graduated from Somerset High, Somerset, MA in 1991 and received her B.S. in communication disorders and psychology from Worcester State College. Her master of science in audiology was awarded at the University of Arkansas in 1997, after which she worked for several private audiology practices in Arkansas, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Returning to the area in 2003, Dr. Duncan founded Duncan Hearing Healthcare, allowing her to apply her passion to her community through rehabilitative audiology and individual patient care. She earned her clinical doctorate in audiology degree from the Pennsylvania College of Optometry (now Salus University) in 2005. Her passion for her family and community is an integral part of what drives her to provide trustworthy, professional hearing healthcare to her patients.

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