Introducing Phonak Bolero V and CROS II Hearing Aids

Phonak Bolero V 

The Finest in Performance and Reliability

Phonak Bolero V Behind-the-Ear (BTE) hearing aids feature Phonaks latest high-performance technology and are designed to provide you a seamless listening experience, even in the most challenging environments. In an appealing and robust design, Bolero V is available in four performance levels and offers a wide choice of colours to either blend in or stand out from your hair or skin tone. You benefit from a better all-around hearing performance with additional reliability and ease of use.

• Newly designed models at different performance levels
• Water resistant and dust tight
• Connects to the entire Phonak Wireless Communication Portfolio

Styles and Colours

Phonak Bolero V is designed to suit your individual style and preferences. It comes in a choice of 11 colours, so you can match your personality, hair or skin with either vibrant or subtle tones.

 

Phonak Programs, Features & Benefits

Thanks to unique and unmatched features you will be able to capture more of the voices and sounds you want and need to hear. Actively holding a conversation while enjoying the outdoors on a windy day or focusing on a single voice in a noisy crowd. These are just two examples of challenging environments where you will be able to communicate and understand more with ease.

More Information

Call The Hearing Care Centre on 01473 230330. 

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Phonak CROS II

The smart solution for single-sided deafness

Phonak CROS II is the discreet wireless CROS transmitter based on the Venture platform. It transmits the sound from the ear with no hearing to a hearing aid on the better hearing ear. As a result, persons can hear speech from the side they have not heard from before.

CROS II will transmit sound and voices to let your good ear hear for both your ears. If you have good hearing in one ear and non hearing in the other, then CROS II will work for you. CROS stands for ‘Contralateral Routing of Signal’ and consists of two parts:

• The CROS aid with a microphone to pick up sounds and voices from the non-hearing ear and wirelessly transmit them to the hearing aid.
• The hearing aid to receive the signal from the non-hearing ear and play it to your good ear.

With CROS II, you will immediately feel included in a conversation, regardless of the situation. Whether at dinner with friends or in a meeting at work, you don’t have to position yourself so that everyone sits on your good side.

More Information

Call The Hearing Care Centre on 01473 230330.

FREE BEER!* By HCC patient, Geoffrey Holdcroft

"Right now that I've got your attention, I want to discuss men and hearing loss.

Ask any medical professional and they will tell you that we men are very bad at seeking help when it comes to health issues. Hearing loss is just such an issue. Hearing loss is a problem which will creep up on you. Whereas the ladies will deal with the issue when they know they have a problem us men just ignore the problem and put off dealing with it. How do I know this? Well, I've lost count of the number of ladies who tell me their male partner has a hearing problem and refuses to deal with it!

Why does it matter, I hear you ask? The posh term the professionals use is “auditory deprivation”. Eh?? In a nutshell the mechanism of hearing is a complex system involving the ears and the brain. If you fail to deal with a hearing problem when you or your family notice you have a problem, the system gets into a vicious circle and you lose the ability to hear. Having a hearing test and getting the right aids for you will prevent the system “forgetting” how to hear and becoming a degenerative downward spiral. Modern hearing aids are a wonder of miniature high tech engineering. I wear hearing aids myself and I can tell you that the aids themselves and the connecting wires are so small, nobody notices them.

My own experience is quite interesting. I suspected I had a hearing problem so I went for a hearing test at HCC. Quite properly I was told, yes I did have hearing loss but I wasn't in need of aids immediately. I decided to go ahead anyway because I had come across an article giving pointers that socially I did need aids. For me the ones that resonated were:

1. Do people appear to be mumbling?       

 Yes especially female check-out assistants.

2. Do you find it difficult to hear when a lot of other people are talking?

Yes our family gatherings are nothing short of riotous!

3. Do you get a very bad headache after attending an event as described above?

Yes this is the killer reason I decided to get hearing aids. I was getting really bad headaches when I had been straining to hear in difficult conditions.

There are lot of other pointers which might apply to you. For example: Do you say pardon a lot? Does your family complain that you have the TV or radio far too loud? Everyone is an individual and there are lots of other pointers.

*Sorry, I'm not giving away free beer I lied - but I do urge anyone, especially the men amongst us to book a hearing test if you suspect you have a problem."

Geoffrey