Cafés, restaurants and social gatherings can be difficult places to follow conversations, even when you're wearing hearing aids.
Background conversations, music and coffee machines all compete with the person you're trying to hear.
Here are a few tips and tricks that can help.
Choose your venue and seat
- Consider visiting your local restaurant outside of peak dining hours or choosing a table away from busy areas.
- Think about the type of venue you're visiting. Rooms with carpet, low ceilings and soft furnishings tend to have less echo than large spaces with hard floors and bare walls.
- Face directly towards the person you're talking to, as being able to see someone's face and mouth can help you follow what they're saying.
Use your hearing aids' noise settings
Some hearing aids have a programme designed for noisy places.
If you're a Resonate Unlimited subscriber, your ReSound hearing aids are designed to support you when you're in noisy environments like cafés, restaurants or social gatherings.
Try switching to those settings, as they can help reduce some background noise and make it easier to focus on conversation.
If you're unsure how to change programmes, ask your local studio team to show you.
If you're still having trouble hearing
If conversations in noisy places have become harder to follow, let us know.
Try to remember which situations are difficult. For example, you might hear well across a small table but struggle when you're sitting with a larger group.
Your audiologist can use this information to review your hearing aid settings and see whether an adjustment would help.
Need a hand?
Call us on 0800 737 662 or book a follow-up if you'd like help with your hearing aid settings.
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