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Getting used to a hearing aid takes time, usually at least a month to six weeks, but it may take as long as several months until your ability to understand speech has peaked.If you don't notice a marked improvement by the end of the first month, there's a strong chance that the hearing aid isn't right for you.nother factor is how much time you spend wearing your hearing aid when you first take it home. Many audiologists have found that the patients who keep their hearing aids in for the longest time each day in the first few weeks adjust the fastest.
Most tend to delay treatment until they cannot communicate even in the best of listening situations. On average, hearing aid users wait over 10 years after their initial diagnosis to be fit with their first set of hearing aids (Davis, Smith, Ferguson, Stephens, & Gianopoulos, 2007).Our population is aging. According to the Administration on Aging (2011, para.pproximately one third of Americans between ages 65 and 74 and nearly half of those over age 75 have hearing loss (NIDCD, 2010). Hearing loss is the third most prevalent chronic health condition facing older adults (Collins, 1997).