Before Cliff Mills, 75, began wearing hearing aids 15 years ago, he couldn’t have expected to spend $5,000 on his first pair. But asked whether the cost was worth it, he responded: “I would have paid more.”
“On wearing my first pair of aids on the first day, I could hear birds and so many other long forgotten sounds. … It took time to get used to hearing them all,” said Mills, a retired event planner who lives in Montrose, Colorado.
