How to Talk to Family About Hearing Loss This Holiday 🎄💬

4 Dec 2025 · 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 🎄💬" (created 2025-12-04) featuring a single speaker offering practical advice on how to approach family members who may have hearing loss during holiday gatherings. The speaker (labeled SPEAKER A) recommends a private, compassionate conversation, advises against publicly calling someone out, and references prior videos while noting health impacts of hearing loss like social isolation, dementia risk, and fall risk.

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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 a hearing aid?" or, you know, "Why are you not wearing a hearing aid?" You wanna 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.