VA benefits offered to qualifying veterans include coverage includes hearing aids but do all veterans qualify?
When I think about the people I want to honor on Veterans Day, I don’t have to look far. Right here at LSH, on our own Board of Directors, we have a wonderful example in our Vice President, Scott Quinlan. Scott joined the Army at 19 and served six years of military service just before the first...
Happy Halloween! With that yearly spook-fest called Halloween nearly upon us, it seems appropriate to talk about owls, which have long been associated with all things spooky, along with spiders, black cats, witches and goblins. But rather than run in fright from the idea of an owl at night, I...
Halloween is nearly upon us and owls, those yellow-eyed denizens of the night, have long been associated with Halloween, perhaps because they are nocturnal and hunt under cover of darkness, or the fact that they can fly up right next to you before you even know they are there. But even though...
We all know how important Medicare benefits are for countless Americans. In August I talked about the Medical Dental, Vision and Hearing Benefit Act introduced in Congress, which is designed to expand Medicare coverage in these critical areas. While we still don’t know if and when this bill will...
Currently there are huge gaps in the vision and hearing benefits that Medicare covers. We’ve mentioned before that Medicare often does not cover the cost of hearing aids. Though Medicare Advantage Plans (Part C) may cover the cost, there are usually high co-pays and deductibles. A couple of...
Today is World Sight Day 2021 and I wanted to share 10 tips so you can carry out this year’s theme “Love Your Eyes.” According to the World Health Organization at least 1 billion people have a visual impairment that could have been prevented or hasn’t been addressed. Visual impairment affects so...
This week I was going to tell you about Apple’s strong history of accessibility features, specifically how to turn AirPods into hearing aids. This amazing technology is easy to set up (see our article with four easy steps) and will help many people with hearing loss. Unfortunately, Apple’s strong...
Please note, the AirPod sound amplification features we talk about in this article are a tool you can start using today. However, AirPods are not intended to replace a hearing aid that has been determined by your audiologist/hearing aid dispenser to fit your specific ear anatomy and type of...
You’d think that if your vision suddenly gets better, it’s a good thing — right? Well, sadly, no. The truth is that if you have poor eyesight and there’s an unexpected improvement it could be a sign that you have diabetes. I know, how does this even make sense? Actually, it’s pretty straight...
UPDATED AND REPUBLISHED BY LSH SIGHT RESOURCE TEAM (9/30/2021) Did you know that if you have poor eyesight, a sudden improvement could be a sign of diabetes? Even if you don’t have some of the more common symptoms of type 2 diabetes — such as a numb or tingling feeling in hands and...
Last week I talked about Zoom, and the ways it can affect your vision. This week I’m highlighting how Zoom or other video calls can be difficult for deaf or hard of hearing participants. Zoom meetings can be a great source of frustration for deaf workers, as we pointed out in our blog post...
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