How to Talk to Family About Hearing Loss This Holiday

20 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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This content was created by Hope Lanter. This content was uploaded by Hope Lanter. This is a YouTube video titled "How to Talk to Family About Hearing Loss This Holiday" (published 2024-12-20). The excerpt is a single-speaker advice segment in which the presenter (unnamed in the excerpt) offers guidance for speaking with family members who may have hearing loss during holiday gatherings: approach privately and with kindness, avoid publicly calling them out, emphasize concern for their overall health, and mention consequences like social isolation, dementia, and fall risk. The speaker also refers viewers to related videos for more information.

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You're probably heading home for the holidays. Keep in mind that there's probably somebody there who has hearing loss, and maybe they're not aware of it. Hearing loss kind of sneaks up. Some people are not aware, others will notice it before they do usually, but also it could be that they are very aware but just not ready. Approach it with love, lead with love, lead with kindness, and have a conversation off to the side. Don't try to point them out and say, "Hey, when are you getting hearing aid?" or, you know, "Why are you not wearing a hearing aid?" You want to lead with very much a soft approach to saying, "Hey, I care about you and I want you to do something about your hearing." Also good to really look into some of the videos that I've done before. Talk to them about the impact of hearing loss, whether it be social isolation or dementia or fall risk. All those things are real and big impacts to hearing, so we— you want to talk to them about taking care of themselves and their whole picture of health.