I have and aging aunt-in-law who used an old fashioned hearing aid with
separate ear-piece and amplifier.

This works very well for her apart from when she uses the phone. To do so,
she has to remove the amplifier from somewhere under her cardigans and hold
it over the earpiece of the phone, a process that takes a little time and
often results in callers hanging up before she can initiate a conversation.

Life would be simpler if her phone earpiece could be linked up to a loop
aerial that covered a wider area so that she wouldn't have to fiddle with
her hearing aid. Do any phones exist with the appropriate socketry to allow
them to be connected to a loop-aerial amplifier? She already has a phone
with a built in inductive coupler but that's not a lot of use with the old
chest mounted amplifier that she uses.

TIA

Tim

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Life would be simpler if her phone earpiece could be linked up to a loop
aerial that covered a wider area so that she wouldn't have to fiddle with
her hearing aid. Do any phones exist with the appropriate socketry to
allow them to be connected to a loop-aerial amplifier? She already has a
phone with a built in inductive coupler but that's not a lot of use with
the old chest mounted amplifier that she uses.

TIA

Tim

Try the RNID, Royal National Institute for the Deaf web site or ask them.

Dave
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"Tim Downie" wrote in message
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I have and aging aunt-in-law who used an old fashioned hearing aid with
separate ear-piece and amplifier.

This works very well for her apart from when she uses the phone. To do
so,
she has to remove the amplifier from somewhere under her cardigans and
hold
it over the earpiece of the phone, a process that takes a little time and
often results in callers hanging up before she can initiate a
conversation.

Life would be simpler if her phone earpiece could be linked up to a loop
aerial that covered a wider area so that she wouldn't have to fiddle with
her hearing aid. Do any phones exist with the appropriate socketry to
allow
them to be connected to a loop-aerial amplifier? She already has a phone
with a built in inductive coupler but that's not a lot of use with the old
chest mounted amplifier that she uses.

TIA

Tim



She can get a telephone with a separate amplified earpiece, or one which has
an hearing aid adaptor that she can leave an earpiece connected to for when
the phone rings. There's also the hands free phone range which might be of
some use to her.

Contact the social services department or the RNID for more help.

If you are in UK, try
http://www.gordonmorris.co.uk

has some good stuff.
Gordom himself is profoundly deaf so knows his stuff.

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"Tim Downie" wrote in message
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I have and aging aunt-in-law who used an old fashioned hearing aid with
separate ear-piece and amplifier.

This works very well for her apart from when she uses the phone. To do
so,
she has to remove the amplifier from somewhere under her cardigans and
hold
it over the earpiece of the phone, a process that takes a little time and
often results in callers hanging up before she can initiate a
conversation.

Life would be simpler if her phone earpiece could be linked up to a loop
aerial that covered a wider area so that she wouldn't have to fiddle with
her hearing aid. Do any phones exist with the appropriate socketry to
allow
them to be connected to a loop-aerial amplifier? She already has a phone
with a built in inductive coupler but that's not a lot of use with the old
chest mounted amplifier that she uses.

TIA

Tim



She can get a telephone with a separate amplified earpiece, or one which has
an hearing aid adaptor that she can leave an earpiece connected to for when
the phone rings. There's also the hands free phone range which might be of
some use to her.

Contact the social services department or the RNID for more help.

Dave Stanton wrote:
Life would be simpler if her phone earpiece could be linked up to a
loop aerial that covered a wider area so that she wouldn't have to
fiddle with her hearing aid. Do any phones exist with the
appropriate socketry to allow them to be connected to a loop-aerial
amplifier? She already has a phone with a built in inductive
coupler but that's not a lot of use with the old chest mounted
amplifier that she uses.

TIA

Tim

Try the RNID, Royal National Institute for the Deaf web site or ask
them.


Thanks. They've been very helpful (once they understood the specific
problem). It would seem that the use of the old chest mounted hearing aid
is pretty rare nowdays.

Thinking around the problem, it would seem that it might be better to get a
bone-conduction handset which would remove the necessity for any loops. If
that doesn't appeal, I might get a cheaper speaker phone and look at ways to
replace the speaker with a loop aerial.

Cheers.

Tim
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On 11 Dec 2003 11:59:43 -0800, (Gel) wrote:

If you are in UK, try
http://www.gordonmorris.co.uk

has some good stuff.
Gordom himself is profoundly deaf so knows his stuff.

or www.sarabec.co.uk

they manufacture , distribute and retail.