Are you one of the millions of Americans affected by hearing loss? NAPA has joined with ClearValue Hearing, Starkey Hearing Instruments and Westone Earmold Laboratories to develop a comprehensive hearing benefits program exclusively for NAPA members and their families. Save up to 25% on all of your hearing healthcare needs with this valuable program! ClearValue Hearing is a hearing health care benefits plan to supplement existing insurances and Medicare. Upon activation, this program is100% voluntary with no additional cost to current members and their families.
As a NAPA member you get these great benefits:
- NAPA members are guaranteed FREE pre-approval
- Actual savings of 20-25%
- Professional audiologists & specialists statewide
- FREE hearing aid assessment
- Discounts on hearing instruments
- 60-day trial
- 100% guaranteed custom fit
- 1 Year FREE Supply of Batteries (1 case per instrument)
- Eligible for "FLEX" Plan spending
- Do you often ask people to repeat themselves?
- Do you have a problem understanding speech while you are in crowds?
- Do people seem to mumble or speak in a softer voice than they used to?
Hearing loss is gradual; therefore, it may be hard for a person to notice symptoms until it is brought to their attention. From this point, he or she may start to notice that higher pitches, such as children and women's voices, start to disappear. Following this change, he or she may start to notice symptoms including:
- Hearing but not understanding
- Turning up the volume on the TV
- Reading lips in order to understand speech
- Difficulty hearing environmental sounds such as crickets or birds
- Difficulty understanding conversation in groups and crowds
- Strained personal relationships
- Social withdraw Fatigue and stress
Hearing loss affects millions of Americans, though very few seek treatment. An estimated one-quarter of Americans between the ages of 65 and 75 and around three-quarters of those older than 75 have some degree of hearing loss. Most people do not understand exactly how or why it is that they are having a harder time understanding conversations or hearing the television. Over time, the wear and tear on your ears from noise contributes to hearing loss by damaging your inner ear. Doctors believe that heredity and chronic exposure to loud noises are the main factors that contribute to hearing loss. Other factors, such as earwax blockage, can prevent your ears from conducting sounds as well as they should. There are many different types of hearing loss and many different treatments used to help these losses. You can't reverse hearing loss. However, you don't have to live in a world of quieter, less distinct sounds. You and your doctor or hearing specialist can take steps to improve what you hear.
The human ear consists of three parts: the outer ear, the middle ear, and the inner ear. Outer Ear: includes the visible part of the ear (pinna) and the ear canal. Sound is collected and directed through the ear canal. Middle Ear: is an air-filled space separated from the outer ear by the eardrum. The middle ear contains three small bones (ossicles), which make up the ossicular chain. These bones connect the eardrum to the inner ear. Inner Ear: is responsible for hearing and it is called the cochlea. It is full of fluid and has thousands of tiny nerve fibers.
*Activation mandatory for enrollment, scheduling and listed discounts and services.
