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Hearing Loss | Last Active: Mar 23, 2020 | Replies (6)
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grecarmar, it's a shame that the aids come up missing. The staff should be trained to make sure that doesn't happen, especially for the section that she is in. To answer your question, yes, some aids have a feature that can tell you the last location that the hearing aids were at. It requires hearing aids to be Bluetooth and a smartphone app. However, you may find that any smartphone left with her would disappear too. The average cost for a pair of hearing aids is $4700. Perhaps a better solution is to get mom a personal amplifier. I like the Williams Sound Pocketalker. You can find them new on eBay for around $50 (at least it was the last time I looked).
Tony in Michigan
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I looked at the Williams Sound Pocketalker...$139 on Amazon. Reading the reviews, I see that it's possible to pair it with an Olympus ME-52W mic ($13.54 on Amazon) to pick up conversations PLUS use for phone conversations and TV!!!!! I'll check with my Costco person, who will call me as soon as the special new earpiece she ordered for my Bernefon Zerena arrives. I'm hoping that this will finally make it possible to participate in small group meetings. I've bought a tablet for Live Transcribe (tablet's mic can't pick up speech across a table), switched to an Android phone (Live Transcribe provides a single paragraph for a four-hour meeting, missing all tech terms), bought the recommended mic for my aid ($200 and only worked for less than 10' away). Lots of effort and $$$ spent for things that still leave me in the dust, wondering what's being said. Since Charter offers zero captions (yes, I know that they're supposed to, but it's Charter, the only provider in our rural location), it would be great to be able to watch TV, esp. for the news in order to know what's going on in the world.
Anyone have any experience, good or bad, with the Pocketalker?