{"id":22506,"date":"2024-02-28T07:38:35","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T12:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22506"},"modified":"2024-02-28T07:38:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T12:38:37","slug":"say-that-again-using-hearing-aids-can-be-frustrating-for-older-adults-but-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22506","title":{"rendered":"Say That Again: Using Hearing Aids Can Be Frustrating for Older Adults, but Necessary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Judith Graham for KFF Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was an every-other-day routine, full of frustration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every time my husband called his father, who was 94 when he died in 2022, he\u2019d wait for his dad to find his hearing aids and put them in before they started talking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even then, my father-in-law could barely hear what my husband was saying. \u201cWhat?\u201d he\u2019d ask over and over.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/hearing-aids-frustrating-to-use-but-necessary-older-adults\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/hearing-aids-frustrating-to-use-but-necessary-older-adults\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"17\" class=\"wp-image-21118\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png 500w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-300x34.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Judith Graham for KFF Health News) It was an every-other-day routine, full of frustration. Every time my husband called<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,671,12,6],"tags":[92,176,61,94],"class_list":["post-22506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-dme","category-health-care-general","category-medicare-general","tag-aging","tag-hearing-aids","tag-medicare","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22507,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22506\/revisions\/22507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}