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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hearing loss and not using aides contributes more to development and decline with dementia so there's that. However, you chose your battles. The bigger issue is it sounds like their needs exceed where they live. AL would be a better match and you could ask of someone could assist him with hearing aides.[/quote]

My dad had hearing aids from Costco and one nice thing is that they would clean them and recalibrate the volume while my parents were shopping. I cannot underscore enough how having much easy access to customer service made it feasible.

He never used the phone app that came with the hearing aids, and the volume was usually too high or too low and he didn't know how to adjust it. Usually the Costco person would tell him "The volume was all the way down, that's why you thought they weren't working."

My dad has dementia now, and I actually wonder if the hearing loss was mostly him not comprehending anything anymore. Yeah, they did the hearing tests and determined he needed them, but in the end, the dementia was a much bigger issue.[/quote]

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