Just a fifth of people with hearing problems wear a hearing
aid, a study by The University of Manchester has found.
The study, published in the journal Ear and Hearing, looked
at the habits of 160,000 people in the UK aged 40 to 69 years. It found 10.7
per cent of adults had significant hearing problems when listening to speech in
the presence of background noise - but only 2.1 per cent used a hearing
aid.