With the aging of society, our country has entered an aging society, and geriatric diseases have gradually come to the fore, and the hearing health of the elderly should be a cause for concern. But the reality is: people still have one or another misunderstanding of the hearing problem of the elderly. Misconception 1: In daily life, the elderly think that their hearing is still good, did not pay enough attention to hearing loss, or even do not care, when the hearing loss reaches a very serious degree, completely deaf, communication needs to be realized through the writing only when they think that they are deaf. Myth 2: Often hear the elderly will say: I have no disease, do not go to the hospital checkup is good, a hospital checkup will have a disease. This idea or viewpoint is very wrong. Take the example of primary hypertension, when you have a heart attack, cerebral infarction, cerebral hemorrhage or hypertensive crisis and other serious complications, only to pay attention to your blood pressure is not desirable behavior. In fact, you had cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, or diabetic disease before you had these complications. Your disease was there in the first place, not because of the test. Myth 3: Family members or the elderly themselves may think that poor hearing in the elderly is an “old disease”, let it develop and do not care about it, and people pay more attention to the hearing condition of small children, which is not a good idea. It is not that it is wrong to pay attention to children, but that it is equally important to pay attention to the elderly and children. Myth 4: Some elderly people have been fitted with hearing aids under the concern of their children, but they do not feel the actual effect of the hearing aids or they feel very uncomfortable or feel that the noise is too loud and they are not willing to continue to wear them. In fact, this is because there is no rehabilitation training. Wearing a hearing aid, not everything is fine, to have the correct use and moderate expectations, but also need to carry out auxiliary training. Myth 5: Some people say that wearing hearing aids will aggravate deafness, this view is not based on science. Some friends are accustomed to wearing hearing aids for a period of time, because of various reasons do not wear, at this time will feel the hearing seems to be worse than before. This is actually because you have gotten used to hearing amplified sounds. It is just like your poor eyesight, wearing glasses, see the world around you very clearly, when you take off the glasses, see the world around you blurred, you go to the optometrist again when your degree did not increase is the same reason. Myth 6: Some people think: my hearing is poor, I can’t hear well, I need a hearing aid to assist me, and then without going to the ENT department to do any checkup, I just bought one in the store and put it on. This practice will do you no harm, the light can not achieve the effect of hearing aid, the heavy will further damage your hearing. Just like glasses, you need to check the degree of your hearing loss, and then select the right hearing aid for you based on the audiogram, the performance of various hearing aids, and your requirements and experience. Myth 7: The use of hearing aids is just like the use of radio, just turn on the switch of the product, and some elderly people are lazy to maintain their hearing aids as their body functions are declining, and the dexterity of their fingers and the responsiveness of their mind are also declining. Hearing aid is a fine electronic products, avoid humidity, avoid high temperature, avoid collision, need careful maintenance, and in the suffering from otitis externa, otitis media, secretions in the ear can not be worn, the need for active treatment, dry ear and then wear. Myth 8: Some of the higher cultural standards, the communication of special needs of the elderly, will pay attention to their hearing condition in time, but think that deafness is an independent disease, and the whole body has no relationship with the condition, will make the mistake of not seeing the forest for the trees. In addition, because underlying diseases such as hypertension and diabetes require dietary control, long-term medication, and poor compliance, they may focus only on hearing and neglect the treatment of systemic diseases. However, the relationship between systemic diseases and hearing is very close. Myth 9: Some people also have the concept of wearing hearing aids need to do hearing checks, but there will be the phenomenon of letting the child take the audiogram to buy a hearing aid. This is also against the principle of hearing aid fitting. Different individuals feel differently about hearing aids, so be sure to try on the hearing aids yourself to get a sense of what they feel like. Myth 10: Hearing aids can be worn in one ear. This idea is at least one-sided. Age-related deafness is a bilateral hearing loss, and the difference in the level of hearing loss between the two ears will not be very large. In principle, hearing aids should be worn binaurally in order to give full play to the hearing aid effect, increase the sense of direction, improve the resolution of the sound, and hear a clearer sound. The above are the problems I often encountered in my clinical contact and communication with elderly friends, and I would like to put forward the above viewpoints for the reference of elderly friends.