BOISE HEARS Your Journey to Better Hearing
CONTENTS Our Philosophy......................... 4 Comfort and Convenience....... 6 Technology............................... 8 Patient Education..................... 10 Course of Action....................... 12 Testing...................................... 14 Verified Results........................ 16 Ear Canal Impressions............ 18 Custom Solutions..................... 20 Satisfaction.............................. 22 Our Reward.............................. 24 No Boundaries......................... 26 So the World May Hear............ 28
The Patient Journey is a
PHILOSOPHY
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CONCIERGE-LEVEL CARE® PRECISE, CUSTOM SOLUTIONS® VERIFIED BEST HEARING®
Welcome to Audiology and Hearing Aid Center, dedicated to helping you hear your best and enjoy life to the fullest! Our staff is knowledgeable regarding all types of hearing conditions and is happy to answer any questions you may have without pressure or obligation to buy. Our facility is equipped with the newest hearing evaluation technology; for our patients this means an accurate prescription for the type, degree and symmetry of their hearing loss. We carry the broadest line of custom hearing aids in the community — including wireless and invisible-in-canal models — and pledge to recommend only systems best for your lifestyle, type-ofloss, and budget. Clinically, we provide hearing-correction validation through Live Speech Mapping and Real Ear Measurement, a proprietary verification technology, that allows the patient, a loved one, and the provider to see when target hearing improvement has been reached. We are happy you are here! Please enjoy our refreshments. We will be with you shortly. -Dr. Cidy Olsen, Audiology and Hearing Aid Center
Comfort & Convenience are
MANDATORY At our clinic, you will enter an atmosphere of ease and well-being. Our understanding staff is ready to relieve your worries, answer your questions and keep you informed every step of the way. Beginning with a short questionnaire, you’ll highlight your unique priorities. Whether you want to hear your grandkids and improve your quality time or you need more clarity at work and in meetings, we provide the best hearing correction available today. What do you need to live your life to the fullest?
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State-of-the-Art
TECHNOLOGY
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Smart phones, driverless cars, Space X. The integrated circuit chip technology that drives these innovations uses the same expertise that steers advances in hearing correction. Audiology and Hearing Aid Center has solutions for your needs. We promise to provide you with outstanding customer care and state-of-the art hearing instruments to help regain your hearing and improve your quality of life.
EDUCATION is Integral to Our Process Your concerns are legitimate. Researchers suspect that degraded hearing may force the brain to devote too much of its energy to processing sound, and studies show that adults with untreated hearing loss are more likely to develop problems thinking and remembering than adults whose hearing is normal.
Normal Hearing Hair Cells (No hearing loss)
Cochlea (Inner Ear)
Damaged Hearing Hair Cells (Moderate hearing loss)
Dead Hearing Hair Cells (Profound hearing loss)
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Hearing hair cells (called stereocilia) in your cochlea are responsible for sending sound impulses to the brain. When our diagnostics reveal hearing hair cell damage, correction through prescription instruments can restore missing speech sounds.
Further, adults with untreated hearing loss are prone to develop a significant impairment in their cognitive abilities 3.2 years sooner than those with fully functional hearing. Before you’re asked to make any decisions, we know you need to be fully informed. Our short presentation will ease your worries about performance, cost, cosmetics or any other subject on your mind, and show you how much better life will be for you and your loved ones by making the choice for better hearing. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/hearing_loss_and_dementia_linked_in_study
Charting a Personal
COURSE OF ACTION No one is created exactly like you, and no one hears exactly the way you hear. Sure, you could visit a big box store and buy a product built for the masses – precisely tailored for no one – but we know your hearing is too important for that. Our next step on the Journey to Better Hearing is obtaining a full assessment of the current state of your hearing. At Audiology and Hearing Aid Center, we will carefully test and analyze your hearing to determine your strengths and deficits. And the outcome? An objective assessment to be addressed by your custom treatment plan. Isn’t that better than simply turning up the volume?
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Hearing Fact
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Hearing loss is a natural part of aging. As hearing loss slowly increases, we don’t notice the change. Characteristics of hearing problems are indicated by the inability to hear high-frequency consonant sounds such as F, T, P, Sh, Ch and K. Therefore, words such as “Time” and “Dime” or “Bathroom” and “Vacuum” are easily confused.
Evidence-Based
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Your history of general health, hearing and balance will be incorporated into our allied system of evaluation, identification, diagnostics and treatment. You will undergo painless diagnostic procedures which may include comprehensive audiometry, phonetically-balanced word tests, tympanometry, and speech-in-noise tests. These and other advanced diagnostics will meticulously pinpoint the sound frequencies that are loud and clear and the ones that are a bit more elusive.
Verified Results,
PROVEN TECHNOLOGY With testing completed, an Audiology and Hearing Aid Center specialist will review your results. You will see in a visual format your unaided hearing prior to correction and the improvement in your hearing after correction. Essential to this process is the interaction among you, your companion and your specialist to ensure the analysis aligns with your experiences, needs and greatest desires.
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PRECISION in Every Detail
To gain a perfect fit, a technician will take precise measurements of your internal ear canal. A sophisticated 3D scanner is used to make a digital model of your ear canals. Many of today’s most advanced devices are custom made and are known as “completely in the canal,” which means that strangers, acquaintances, colleagues, even your closest friends and relatives will never know.
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Hearing Fact
IIC Hearing Aids Invisible-In-Canal hearing aids, or IICs, are the smallest and most advanced form of hearing correction. IICs are custom made from your ear-canal impressions to ensure a perfect fit and allow the device to fit deep within the ear canal where no one will notice you’re wearing them.
Audiology and Hearing Aid Center employs CAD/CAM (computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing) to produce your custom hearing aid shell, ensuring the most precise, comfortable fitting in the world.
CUSTOM SOLUTIONS Without Compromise
Using computer-aided design and manufacturing, Audiology and Hearing Aid Center’s hearing instruments are worlds ahead of models from the recent past. Our state-of-the-art technology means your device will fit comfortably and offer better acoustics with no feedback. An Audiology and Hearing Aid Center specialist will clearly and patiently teach you how to use and care for your individually-made, custom-fitted device. You’ll have time to become relaxed with inserting and removing your device, how to pair them with your smart phone, television and computer, and we’ll always have answers to your questions, regardless of how small they may seem.
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SATISFACTION is an Experience
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You’ll be thrilled you chose the Path to Better Hearing with Audiology and Hearing Aid Center. You’ll leave with a newfound confidence in your ability to be your best self, interacting at full capacity in any environment. Old worries about missing the details are abolished for you and those closest to you . . .
Hearing Fact
Thirive Hearing App This powerful, easy-to-use app lets users access features like remote programming, language translation, streaming, memor y management and more. Livio AI wearers use the Thrive app to track daily activities using a Body Score, a Brain Score and a combined Thrive Wellness Score.
Your Freedoms are
OUR REWARD
“LIFE IS GREAT! Thank you Dr. Olsen and your great staff.” -Three generations, a weekend at Lake Lowell.
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At Audiology and Hearing Aid Center, our patients tell the story better than we can. We invite you to add your story to our gallery soon.
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. . . especially when there are small new voices in your life you want to hear. Better Hearing is the one decision that will improve every aspect of your life. Take your Journey to Better Hearing by contacting the professionals at Audiology and Hearing Aid Center today. 208-658-0238
So The World
MAY HEAR Your purchase from Audiology and Hearing Aid Center helps those less fortunate receive hearing correction as well. Our clinic donates our time and a portion of each hearing aid sale to support the work of Starkey Hearing Foundation, a public charity co-founded by William F. Austin and Tani Austin, giving the gift of hearing to people in need in
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the U.S. and around the world. Disabling hearing loss affects more than 360 million people, including 32 million children, yet many do not have access to hearing testing and hearing devices that improve lives and promote understanding. Starkey Hearing Foundation focuses on hearing health missions, hearing loss education and hearing aid recycling. To read more about Starkey Hearing Foundation visit www.starkeyhearingfoundation.org.
1740 N Milwaukee St Boise, ID 83704 (208) 658-0238