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Page 14 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • June 11, 2014
Hearing health care office provides free testing
Do you have trouble with your hearing?
An estimated 36 million Americans do. It is
the third most prevalent health concern and
is now believed to affect cognitive ability
when not caught early. It can even contribute
to short-term memory problems.
A new hearing health care office has
opened in the Midland Park/Wyckoff area.
New Life Hearing, located at 700 Godwin
Avenue, Suite 300, is positioned right on the
border of the two towns. The practice has a
mission this year to provide 1,500 hearing
tests, with various special events, at abso-
lutely no charge to the community.
“Everyone over the age of 55 should get
their hearing checked regularly,” says David
Barclay, owner of New Life Hearing. Bar-
clay has been in the hearing health industry
for more than 20 years. He developed a pas-
sion for helping those suffering with hearing
impairment, while working as a technical
adviser at Philips Hearing Instruments in
Mahwah. “When you help someone under-
stand their hearing loss, or improve that
problem with technology, you change their
life,” he said. Barclay is driven by the belief
that hearing is the most important sense we
have. “Relationships are the fruit of life, and
those connections become strained with
hearing loss. People get disconnected.”
New Life Hearing provides a range of
services. Hearing aid service is the main-
stay of the practice, but Barclay said hearing
testing is the most important contribution
to the community. The test provides infor-
mation. It enables patients to understand
their problem and how it affects them and
the family and friends around them. It can
even change one’s personality.
“If you suddenly were to give a strong,
confident woman a hearing loss, she could
become insecure. She might even with-
draw from conversations, or conversely, try
to dominate them. She might forget many
details from discussions that she hears, and
even begin to lose connection with people
in her life. Her family would become more
and more frustrated. Her life would change
drastically,” Barclay said. The problem,
he explained, is that hearing loss can take
many years to affect a person’s life. Slight
changes, year by year, continually add to
the condition. Waiting too long can affect
a person’s ability to comprehend language.
“The brain can, in effect, learn a new
language, one that’s not actually occur-
ring,” Barclay added.
Johns Hopkins and the National Insti-
tute on Aging reported that individuals
with significant hearing loss were two to
four times more likely to develop demen-
tia, but even mild loss doubled the risk.
Medical issues can also cause hearing
loss, including blockage from cerumen (ear
wax), and are cause for a medical referral.
These medical problems make up only
about five percent of cases, but can be very
serious in nature. Only a medical doctor
can resolve the majority of these issues.
Through its free hearing test promotions
this year, New Life Hearing expects to find
many people in need of medical assistance.
All will be referred back to the client’s own
family doctor, or to an ENT, for medical
diagnosis and treatment.
Barclay has been improving lives for the
last 15 years as one of the top providers of
hearing help in the country. He thoroughly
enjoys the relationships he has found, and
looks forward to building new ones at this
new location.
Contact New Life Hearing at (201) 444-
8500 for more information on how you,
a loved one, or friend, can receive a free
hearing test. Don’t miss out. The possibil-
ity of New Life awaits you.