Corporate social responsibility | As a hearing aid producer, Widex has a wealth of knowledge about sound and hearing. We want to share this knowledge to help even more people with hearing loss. By virtue of our knowledge we also have a duty to help prevent acoustic trauma in children, young people and those in active employment.
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Increased public awareness increases the understanding of the extent of the problem. Most people with normal hearing are not aware how difficult it can be to acknowledge a hearing loss and wear hearing aids. For Widex it is therefore just as important to inform people with normal hearing about sound and hearing as to reach the people who conceal their hearing loss.
By creating public awareness about sound and hearing we can help change the perception of hearing impairment and dispel some of the myths about hearing aids. This could affect the behaviour of not only people with hearing loss but also their families, friends, colleagues, etc. Ultimately, it will mean that more people with hearing loss can live an active life together with people with normal hearing.
We offer positive solutions to the many people who live with hearing impairment. Hearing loss occurs among people of all age groups, all nationalities and both sexes. As many as 50% of people with hearing loss are of working age. Some people have a hereditary hearing loss. Others become hearing impaired because of exposure to noise. All need help to enjoy life to the fullest.
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Myths about hearing loss
We attach importance to dialogue and cooperation |
Widex cooperates with a number of specialists in fields associated with the social aspects of hearing difficulties, sound, noise and hearing. The cooperation is characterised by being non-commercial, and its sole purpose is to ensure a better understanding of sound, hearing loss and acoustic trauma in society.
Widex is the first hearing aid producer in the world to offer a substantial amount of information on the Internet. Here you can find information about many of the feelings and challenges that people with hearing loss experience.
Considerable efforts have been put into making easily accessible information available about hearing and about acknowledging a hearing loss. The information is based on the psychological/social aspects of being hearing impaired. It is then up to the recipient/reader to evaluate which information is relevant in the specific case.
Widex wants to signal to the readers that people with hearing impairment have a wide range of lifestyles and hearing losses. It has therefore been an objective to provide information that is sufficiently comprehensive and diverse to meet as many needs as possible.
We continue to prepare information material that in a natural and positive way discusses many of the social challenges that first-time hearing aid users are facing. This material is distributed in several languages over most of the world.
In the dialogue with the distributors worldwide, Widex works at communicating the social aspects of hearing loss to the dispensers.
It is Widex' idea to use the internet and other media to continuously inform about these non-commercial initiatives, the overall objective being to reduce noise-induced hearing damage in society and make it easier to live with a hearing loss.
