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Media Planet’s Vision & Hearing Feature: The Baby Boomer Approach to Hearing Health

June 6th, 2014 | by Andreas Seelisch | Hearing Health

Media Planet’s Vision & Hearing Feature: The Baby Boomer Approach to Hearing Health

The latest Media Planet Vision and Hearing Supplement features an article by Hearing Solutions Audiologist and Trainer, Tracy Saunders, called Baby Boomers: How North America’s Largest Population Deals with their Hearing. Tracy advises, “Baby boomers have been one of the highest goal oriented, research driven, and knowledge-seeking groups in history. Allowing hearing loss to grab hold of you is akin to taking your place in a rocking on the front porch.

Click Here to read Tracy’s article and others.

Andreas graduated Western University with a Bachelor of Health Sciences (Hons) in 2006 and a Master’s in Communication Sciences and Disorders in 2008. He recently obtained his Master’s in Business Administration from the Jack Welch Management Institute in 2024. He completed his thesis work at the National Centre for Audiology on the sound quality impact of frequency compression technology and has published on this topic as well as others. He gives regular lectures in the community, at conferences and scientific meetings, in the media and at various post-secondary academic institutions, including the University of Toronto, Western University, Conestoga College as well as St. Lawrence College, where he is faculty. In addition to over a decade of clinical practice as an Audiologist, he is currently engaged as the Director of Audiology at Hearing Solutions, the largest chain of independently owned hearing healthcare clinics in Ontario.

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