AUSTRALIAN Hearing staff hope a new world record will help put hearing awareness on Wimmera residents’ radars.
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The group’s Horsham branch staff have urged people to have their hearing checked this week as part of national Hearing Awareness Week.
As part of the week-long event and the Big Aussie Hearing Check, people can have their hearing tested for free at a number of locations in the city.
Hearing Awareness Week and the Big Aussie Hearing Check are both Australian Hearing initiatives.
The Big Aussie Hearing Check follows on from a world record broken by Australian Hearing at the weekend. The group broke the Guinness World Record for most hearing checks done in one day on Sunday.
The organisation completed 712 hearing checks at Port Macquarie.
Australian Hearing Horsham branch’s hearing health promotions officer Bree Boag said the broken record was a way to kick off the conversation about hearing checks.
“We want to put hearing health on the agenda for young and old,” she said.
She said it was important for people of all ages to have their hearing checked.
“If they don’t know they have hearing loss, they don’t know what they are missing,” she said.
Miss Boag said the aim of the week was to have more than 10,000 Australians tested throughout the week.
She said it was important for people to have their hearing checked every year.
“If you get checked, you can be proactive about your hearing health,” she said.
Miss Boag said Wimmera residents aged 18 or older had the opportunity to have their hearing tested for free at Amcal Pharmacy in Horsham on Wednesday and Thursday.
Miss Boag said many Wimmera people had taken advantage of the hearing tests so far.
“It’s been a very positive response,” she said.
She said a hearing frequency test took about five to 10 minutes.
Miss Boag said people who were not able to make the tests this week could get a free hearing test any time at the Horsham office.
She said the Horsham office was open Monday to Friday from 8.30am to 5pm at Horsham Plaza.
Miss Boag said Wimmera businesses could also organise for hearing checks at their businesses.
“We service the whole Wimmera, from Edenhope to Willaura,” she said.
