Hearing loss can negatively impact a person’s quality of life in many different ways. It makes communicating with people extremely challenging, leading to issues like social isolation, loneliness, depression, speech delays in children and missed educational and job opportunities.
In the UK alone, 18 million people are hearing impaired, according to new research from the universities of Manchester and Nottingham. Hearing impairments range from extreme to moderate, and while someone can be born deaf or hearing impaired, many people develop hearing difficulties later in age due to a lifetime of working in noisy environments.
