by Eleanor Yap | Mar 23, 2025 | Health
A survey found significant gaps in awareness, persistent barriers to treatment, and the profound impact of hearing loss on quality of life. A hearing survey found significant gaps in awareness, persistent barriers to treatment, and the profound impact of...
by Eleanor Yap | Mar 14, 2023 | Health
Survey finds that work commitments and family as key motivators to seek treatment for hearing difficulties. Despite 90 percent of respondents ranking their hearing health as important or extremely important, less than one in four people in Singapore have taken...
by Eleanor Yap | Apr 8, 2022 | Health
Getting an appointment for the National University Hospital’s Mobile Hearing Clinic. Seen the mobile hearing clinic in your area and want to get an appointment? Ageless Online checked in with the National University Hospital’s Mobile Hearing Clinic...
by Eleanor Yap | Oct 1, 2021 | Health
If you have severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss and have tried conventional hearing aids with little success, this may be an option. A 2017 study estimated that 422,000 older adults in Singapore suffer from hearing loss, and over 100,000 may have a disabling...
by Eleanor Yap | Feb 25, 2020 | Health
NTU students are encouraging family and friends to accompany seniors to go for hearing screenings. More than half of Singapore’s seniors would be more inclined to participate in a hearing screening when accompanied by a family or friend, according to a survey done by...
by Eleanor Yap | Oct 24, 2017 | Health
Two seniors reveal their hearing loss and their hearing aid woes. BY: Eleanor Yap Pauline Ong did not look too much into it when she first experienced difficulty hearing in 2005. Once during a bible study session in 2008, when there were 10 to 12 people around the...
by Eleanor Yap | Mar 29, 2016 | Health
A former Miss Universe Singapore shares some insights to talking to family members about getting hearing aids. BY: Eleanor Yap Valerie Lim, 30, a former Miss Universe Singapore, had a hard time talking to her 58-year-old mother, Eugine Soh. There was one...
by Eleanor Yap | Mar 6, 2016 | Health
The one-stop clinic, which provides comprehensive hearing test, hearing aid fittings and aural rehabilitation services, is planning to screen 8,000 residents aged 40 and above. Over the next two years, 8,000 residents aged 40 years old and above will benefit...
by Eleanor Yap | Feb 18, 2016 | Health
A new company bets on convenience as the way to enable seniors to enjoy better hearing. Did you know that it is estimated that only two percent of people with hearing loss in Singapore actually have hearing aids, shared one of four founders of Nessa Asia, Maxime...
by Eleanor Yap | Apr 24, 2013 | Health
For those with light hearing loss or those who have given up on their hearing aids, there is a new solution that trains your brain to process sound faster and more accurately. BY: Eleanor Yap If you thought that it was your ears that actually do the...
by Eleanor Yap | Nov 5, 2012 | Health
Hearing loss is a common condition affecting older adults. In Singapore, those who above 60 years old, it is estimated that over 80 percent may have some degree of hearing loss. BY: Eleanor Yap You have been told you may need a hearing aid. But you have some...
