My father is fortunate to have lived a long life, still super sharp at age 97. However in his 80s it started getting trickier for him to change the hearing aid batteries. His eyesight was not as good, and his hands were a little shaky. And… it got a bit harder to keep batteries stocked. (Amazon solves that issue.).
He had a choice which type of hearing aid to get last time, and I encouraged the rechargeable. One benefit is that it gives a good place to put the hearing aids at night - they don’t get lost as much.
If there is no longer choice of battery vs rechargeable, that would be unfortunate.
I’d expect you’d have a location to put the hearing aids at night, regardless of whether they are rechargeable or not. Every hearing aid I’ve ever purchased came with a case for storage. I keep my case on the counter, and put the hearing aids in the case when not being used. Many hearing aid chargers are structured as cases, allowing user to get the traditional storing in case benefits – more sanitary and reducing potential damage from splashes or falling objects. However, some chargers do not have that case benefit.
My late dad would routinely misplace his hearing aids. Didn’t matter if there was a case to put them in. He’d sometimes take out a hearing aid and lose it, or lose the whole case. Many of my friends would lament the same stories about their parent.
I’m guessing storing in a rechargeable hearing aid case rather than traditional hearing aid case doesn’t always resolve that problem. It doesn’t sound like the problem is rooted in whether the hearing aid is rechargeable or not.
Perhaps not, but at least the charging case is plugged in and in the same place all the time. Less likely than a small case to be moved/misplaced by an aging adult, hopefully with a second set of eyes there to help. Hearing aids are easily misplaced regardless of the method of charging.
Maybe its time to move on before we get the “take it backchannel” message!!
I don’t care for coconut water, but then I don’t care for any flavored water (well, unless you consider coffee or tea flavored water!). But I don’t get all the canned flavored waters, carbonated or not. I prefer plain H2O.
Ray-Ban aviators, specifically the ones with the really thin arms and flimsy little hinges on the frames. They’re cheap and poorly constructed.
I prefer aviators from Randolph Engineering. They are the glasses military pilots prefer. I have owned my pair for 15 years and they’re still going strong. I bought them on Overstock for $99.99.
The Bachelor/Bachelorette. Seriously, who in their right mind dates someone that’s sleeping with 4 other partners hoping they’ll be “chosen.” There’s a word for people like that…they’re called sociopaths.
Anything Like Real Housewives of (Name the city). You couldn’t pay me enough money to watch a show about entitled people with way too much time and way too much money.
It would take a large caliber weapon and imminent chance of death to make me watch that type of show.
