Help! I can't afford to buy hearing aids

Check Hearing loss associations- your Audiologists should know of places that helps. Senior centers usually has someone in them that would know . Contract your senators about this too. Enough studies about how bad hearing loss can be without help. If I had gotten cochlear implants before 65, under Medicaid coverage would have 100 percent. I say no and my aids are going to last forever- 15 years old.

Hullo kid. Check with your local lions club. They have donated hearing loss equipment aimed for someone just like you. Don’t despair. Someone where you live will help you. Just about any audiologist should be able to point you in the right direction. Hang in there. Wet mountain john

I forgot the Lions club- they are awesome

@hammock2015 COntact your local Lions club they have hearing aids that they give to people in need .

@hammock2015
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Sertoma is a good organization depending on what state you live in. A man in my gym class went to an audiologist and told him he couldn’t afford to pay those prices. His Audi was able to get a pair of refurbished older model aids for a few hundred dollars.

Good luck

FL Mary

@hammock2015 Another option is Starkey Hearing Aids has a Foundation that distributes free hearing aids all over the world. You have to qualify financially. If you go to their website and look for the Foundation (might be called HearNow) it has a pre-qualifying link to tell whether you qualify or not. Good luck.

Mike

Not a good hearing aid company. Sorry. Too many horror stories.

@bookysue Check into the Lions club they can help with hearing aides

I know. - keep on forgetting- somebody mentioned it yesterday
Interesting bit- Hear well ( a company in anJ) only will do ohone calls- I explained that I cannot hear on the phone and has sent text and email with information. I have not heard back. They do trial runs of some aids . Sad.

In response to bookysue's post about a hearing aid co. that only does phone calls: This is an extremely common problem with anything even remotely related to medical issues, thanks to HIPPA!!!! No way to make appts. without calling in most cases, esp. (bad joke at best!) HEARING CLINICS! I drive to my local primary doc's office to make an appt.; ditto with my eye specialist. However, my kidney doc and all the hearing clinics are two hours away...and only do phone. Shoot, I can't always even figure out the correct response to confirm an appt. (if that's what they're calling about). Recently, I tried making an appt. with the local vet to get booster shots for the cat. Although I knew that they had recently expanded hours to some on Sunday, I had heard that they were short hours and only for emergencies. Imagine my surprise when I appeared at the correct time a day late on Monday...and got charged a premium for a drop-in appt.

Although my primary care doc, a friend, has given me her e-mail, she reminds me that it is NEVER to be used for anything medical. Crazy world!

Living in a town 100% reliant on tourism is now even more frustrating. Our coastal town of 8,000 has 50,000 people in town any summer weekend with more on holiday weekends. Very strange to see Mickey D's lot empty! All restaurants and bars were closed by Oregon's Gov. two weeks ago, but it was only Wed. that our mayor finally gave in and closed all overnight lodging...after an e-mail campaign. Again, crazy world! We need to give credit to the local Indian tribe as they closed their casino, six restaurants, and huge hotel before it was ordered. Better yet, since they do not contribute to unemployment benefits, they are paying all their employees, at least for the time being. There are bright spots if we search...