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Fact sheet: Living with hearing loss

Hearing and quality of life are closely linked. Poor hearing affects both the person with the loss and those they communicate with. A comprehensive study conducted in the USA on the effects of untreated hearing loss on adults as well as their families found that hearing loss impacts on our social, emotional, psychological and physical wellbeing.

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Fact sheet: Frequently asked questions

Deafness or hearing impairment is often described as the ‘invisible disability’. This is partly because hearing aids tend not to be obvious and partly because those affected are often isolated through lack of access to communications.

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