Hearing loss is a condition that affects old persons making them hard of perceiving sounds especially those that are distant.
Though different from deafness, it shows similar tendencies such as heightened perception of vibrations rather than actual sounds.
It is rife in patients who have reached their octogenarian stages of more that 75 years, half of whom are said to showcase a substantial level of lack of differentiation of a set of disparate sounds.
This condition, though it never leads to eventual deafness in most cases, occurs gradually over a long period of time and may have its roots in youth.
Many causes of this problem are worldly noises.
Research has shown that patients who suffer from the disease are more likely to have spent their lives close to high pitched music and other forms of sound pollution.
This leads to damage of their eardrums just like what happens to those who are subjected to high level sounds that are projected next to the ear in mechanical industries.
The other major cause of the condition includes natural means like when the earwax is blocked.
  This is attributed to inherited genes because even when one adapts such measures as proper sanitation they are still not able to stem the condition fully.
The main remedy to treating Hearing loss is by taking disparate approaches pertaining to worldly and natural causes.
In the former respect, the patient can migrate to more tranquil locales where there are lower noise levels.
One can also seek medical recourse to reduce the matter blocking the earwax.