23/08/2026
Most people wait seven to ten years before doing anything about hearing loss they already know they have.
Not because they don't understand it. Because nothing dramatic ever happens. There's no bad day, no emergency, no single moment that forces the decision. Just a slow narrowing of life that everyone, including him, puts down to getting older.
It usually goes something like this.
In the first year, he asks you to repeat things. A little more often than he used to.
By around year three, he's stopped suggesting the noisy restaurant. He'll still come if you pick it, but he won't be the one who does.
By year five, the phone calls have got shorter. Not because he doesn't want to talk, but because a phone strips away everything that makes speech easier to follow — the face, the lips, the context.
By year seven, he's the one sitting quietly at family functions. Present, pleasant, not really in it. And by then nobody questions it, because it happened slowly enough to look like personality.
He didn't lose his hearing in those years. He lost the room.
The most recent study to actually measure hearing in older Indians — LASI-DAD, run by IIPS Mumbai — found that fewer than one in six people over sixty had normal hearing. Most of them are somewhere in this timeline right now, and most aren't doing anything about it.
A comprehensive hearing assessment takes 60 to 90 minutes. It's a measurement, not a verdict — no obligation to buy anything, no pressure to decide on the day. What he does with the result is entirely his call.
Dr. Nabarun Deb and Dr. Sarmistha Nayak are both RCI-certified audiologists, and both see every patient personally at our Borivali West clinic.
📞 WhatsApp or call +91 88507 69404 to book a hearing assessment.
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