Ask Helen
Celebrity agony aunt Helen Lederer gives you her heartfelt advice every week
As someone who has been a social worker, mother, wife and divorcee I have been around the block a few times. I’m humbled to answer your questions and feel that if a problem can be shared it can be halved – at the very least.
Hearing aid technology is always improving, so encourage him to ask about other sources
so he does truly have reduced hearing. Secondly, hearing aid technology is improving all the time. I expect he must know that a volume of 63 is high. Have you pointed this out in a kind way? But fear not, there are options…
Why not get family and friends on your side? Can he hear them on the telephone or in a Zoom call? Or in the garden when they visit? He must be missing out and feeling frustrated. Encourage them to suggest that he go back to get better aids. Or maybe get an opinion outside the NHS – there are many, such as Boots, that give a free hearing test and have many different hearing aids. Making it a fun thing to see what is available will diminish the fear and help you both accept what has to be. Obviously rowing about it is upsetting. The more you can both face what is a reality, the more you can adjust to a new normal.
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