聽力健康的重要性

許多人低估了聽力損失的影響，認為它只是一個感覺問題。實際上，聽力健康聽對整體健康至關重要，並且採取行動來保護您的健康也非常重要。

了解更多：

• 聽力損失的影響
• 健康的三大指標
• 終結刻板印象
• 掌控您的聽力和健康

60歲以上的成人，當中2/3有聽力損失¹⁰,¹⁵

聽損者配戴助聽器的時間，相比於過去¹⁶提早了2年。

聽力損失的影響

無論聽力損失的程度如何，它都可能影響您的社交、情感和整體健康。聽損可能會悄悄地加劇，逐漸影響您與他人交流和建立聯繫的能力。它也可能會影響您對周圍環境的安全感，進而影響您的社交生活和參與度。保持良好聽力對健康老化至關重要:

• 配戴助聽器能更好的參與團體活動¹
• 配戴助聽器能提升可聽度，以及促進大腦健康
• 配戴助聽器能提升工作和社交活躍度，且有更多女性表示活動量增加。

健康的三大指標

接受聽損不容易，但聽能復健有益於社交情緒、認知和身體健康

社交情緒健康

聽力損失的人有時在社交場合會缺乏自信，加上經常要依賴他人充當自己的耳朵，彼此間的情誼也會受影響。幸運的是，有方法可以應對這些挑戰－通過作為夥伴進行溝通並使用助聽科技來實現社交情緒的好處⁸。

認知健康

耳朵和大腦是同樣重要的夥伴，最新研究顯示聽損和認知之間存在關聯，透過配戴助聽器處理聽力問題，對健康老化有正面影響。²

• 認知衰退風險高的聽損長輩，配戴助聽器後能降低記憶流失的問題。³
• 配戴助聽器能維持認知健康⁴
• 聽得好讓您思考更清晰。¹⁴

峰力理解透過創新聽力解決方案，促進社交參與與活躍生活的重要性，我們也提供聽力照護專家認知健康方面的資源，以提升專業。

專業人士相關資源

身體健康

使用助聽器有益於:改善平衡問題、提升環境感知能力⁷，以及增加活動量⁸。

終結刻板印象

了解聽力損失和其盛行率，有助於減緩隨之而來的孤獨感。

• 全球約有15億人受到聽力損失的影響，大約佔全球人口16%¹⁵。
• 約65%的聽力損失患者屬於輕度聽損，30%屬於中度聽損，而5%患有重度或極重度聽損¹⁶,¹⁷。
• 大多數患有聽力損失的人處於學齡或工作階段¹⁸。

掌控您的聽力和健康

聽損初期的徵兆常被忽略-定期的聽力檢查對於健康老化和生活品質至關重要。

備注：

* 在對接受助聽器治療的老年人進行的研究中，多數人在僅僅18個月後表現出穩定甚至明顯改善的認知功能。更頻繁使用助聽器與改善生活機能的執行力存在相關性。

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