Discover how the LIVE WELL Range from Lions Hearing Clinic can improve your health beyond your hearing
Do you need extra motivation to live your best life?
Research has shown that hearing difficulties may reduce your quality of life through social isolation, feelings of loneliness, and a loss of your independence.
Many of us don’t have a personal trainer to encourage us to get up off the couch to get active, but our LIVE WELL range of hearing devices makes it easy to build more activity into your day. These new devices will encourage you to get out for a bike ride, take the stairs instead of the lift, go for a swim at the beach and take a walk along the coast before your morning coffee.
The new range at Lions Hearing Clinic will give you the confidence and motivation to hear well and live your best life.
The hidden risks associated with hearing loss
By itself, untreated hearing loss is usually not life-threatening, but it has been associated with many health conditions that can be life-threatening. The Busselton Healthy Ageing Study has shown a significant association between hearing loss and many other chronic health conditions, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes and respiratory disease.
Motivation & safety to live your best life
Phonak Audéo Life
Waterproof
Phonak Audéo Fit
Heart rate monitor
Starkey Evolv AI
Falls monitor
Fit hearing aids with a heart-rate sensor
Hearing aids are often stigmatised as a device for the old or infirm. But the latest hearing aids are anything but old–fashioned: they’re teched out with AI, fitness trackers, streaming capability, and more. Now Phonak is out with the first commercially available hearing aid with a heart-rate sensor.
Audéo Fit’s receiver-in-canal device tracks fitness data, such as steps, activity level, and distance walked, while also monitoring the wearer’s heart rate when paired with the MyPhonak app. Currently available at Lions Hearing Clinic, Audéo Fit pairs with up to eight Bluetooth devices, including smartphones and TVs.
Original source: TIME
If you’re having trouble hearing, find out if the LIVE WELL Range suits your hearing and lifestyle needs
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Diabetes
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Cognitive decline
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Tinnitus
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Mental Health
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Eye Health
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Smoking
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Ototoxicity
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Isolation
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Osteoporosis
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