More Baby Boomers losing their hearing

"Would you repeat that?" It is Gene Ambroson's latest mantra. "Say again?" the 59-year-old baby boomer adds as he stares intently at your face, a stare that could unnerve someone not familiar with the severe hearing loss that is afflicting Ambroson and could affect a few million more boomers in the coming years. More about that stare later.

The Associated Press reported recently that as many as 50 million Americans could be affected by impaired hearing by mid-century. Inexorably, this could affect one out of every six Americans.

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