Volunteers ensure V8 Supercars zoom Retiree power on grid
IT’S unfortunate considering the investment made that many hearing aids end up in the drawer.
Hearings aids from the past three to five years are usually of excellent quality and most issues stem from a poor initial fitting.
Signs of ill- fitted hearing aids include the hearing aids being too loud but with no clarity, whistling or feedback, soreness in the ear or they just keep falling off or out of your ear.
Even if your hearing aids were funded through the Federal Government’s Office of Hearing Services Scheme, you spent the time and effort getting assessed and fitted. Don’t let that investment go to waste.
Get a hearing aid review. During a review, a full, comprehensive assessment is conducted and the hearing aid settings checked and adjusted to ensure they truly meet your needs.
If you have a customfit hearing aid, it may be that the fitting needs adjustment. That may sound like a big job but it isn’t really. Manufacturers want their hearing aids to fit properly so they will happily adjust if required.
Any audiologist can review your hearing aid. You don’t have to see the clinic that prescribed them if you don’t feel comfortable seeing them again. So get your hearing aids out of the drawer and have them reviewed by an expert audiologist. DESPITE some aged care homes in Townsville cutting weekend activities and telling volunteers they were no longer needed on Saturday and Sundays, volunteers are still at the heart of these facilities.
Townsville man Bruce Muller says he is almost part of the furniture at the RSL Care Rowes Bay nursing home, where he has been a volunteer for the past 23 years.
Mr Muller, who enjoys a chat with residents such as centenarian Joyce Bradly, ( pictured) said many of the elderly residents did not get visitors and some had no surviving family members.
“It started for me from when mum went there in 1994 and she became a resident in the independent villas. The friends mum made there became my friends,” he said.
“Many of them had no family or visitors so I used to visit the people in the independent villas.
“Mum passed in 2008 and I had a period where I couldn’t go there, but when I knew how important it was, and so when I was ready I went back to visit and I kept going.”
Mr Muller, also a volunteer mentor at NRL Cowboys House, said he encouraged more people to give their time to volunteering.
To find out how to help contact Volunteering NQ 4725 5990 or call RSL Care direct. A TEAM of Townsville retirees will be among those keeping things running smoothly during a big weekend of racing at the V8 Supercars race next month.
Former Mundingburra primary school teacher of 34 years and grandfather of 10, Graham Carnes, 71, will be signing on event officials during the weekend.
He and volunteer grid marshall Ned Keeley are among the many volunteers who work behind the scenes to keep the race going.
“I got switched on to racing back in the day when Dick Johnson and Allan Moffat and Peter Brock raced at Bathurst,” Mr Carnes said.
“It is great for Townsville. It brings a lot of people to Townsville and it is an economic boost for the city.
“There are volunteers who come from all over the country who come here every year. There are people who travel around volunteering.
“You get to meet those people and you get to see what it is like in the background.
“One year Jamie Whincup was walking the same way as me and we chatted as we walked along.”
Mr Carnes, who has helped out at the Townsville road race for about seven years, said the benefit of volunteering was free access to the action and meeting new people.
Event manager Rachael White about 400 volunteers would sign on at the event with some coming from ACT, NSW and Victoria, who travelled to attend each round.
“Honestly we couldn’t run an event of this size without the volunteers. Their contribution is invaluable,” she said.
The Townsville 400 is on from July 7- 9.