Ear Gym - How gamified hearing training can improve hearing capacity by 25%
Summary
In Series 2 Episode 6 of the Health Points podcast Ben and Pete welcome Amanda Philpott , the CEO and co-founder of Ear Gym , to discuss her background in healthcare and the need for a solution to address hearing loss. Amanda was inspired to start Ear Gym after learning about the global prevalence of unaddressed hearing loss and its correlation with social isolation, mild cognitive impairment, and dementia. I joined the NHS in 1991 as an information analyst, and then I took a general management career journey spanning about 30 years through a series of operational and strategic roles in hospitals and primary care and community. So use of headphones, which of course has grown exponentially really, since the early two thousand and ten s. Amanda And so I also didnt know about the correlation between hearing loss, social isolation, mild cognitive impairment and dementia. It might be called something else now in the NHS, but how you get people to stop smoking or address their habits for type two diabetes or asthma and what have youre looking at intrinsic motivators.