Glad to see this video! I was unaware this change was coming, and found out a couple months ago when my supply of 312 batteries ran low. I was immediately suspicious upon seeing the packaging, but then it just became a nightmare to open. After a couple instances of struggling with the new packaging, it got to the point where I joked to my wife that I'll become a single-issue voter on this alone for whoever will repeal this law. I prefer disposables because I stream heavily and my hearing is so bad that I need to wear hearing aids the entire day. I only sleep 6-7 hours most days, so that's about 17 hours of usage (maybe 16.5 if I deduct the time for showering and drying my ears after). I'd be open to rechargeable, but so far the best figure I've heard for battery life with rechargeable and lots of streaming is about 14-15 hours at most. I hope someone will make a carrier for hearing aid batteries that works sort of like how those daily vitamin/supplement dispensers work. Then I can just open the new packaging, remove the batteries, and place them in a separate dispenser for easier use and carrying.
Thanks to an earlier video you posted about the impending packaging change, I immediately started keeping all of my old battery packages. So I have a collection of the old style packages. I just got a new box of the new packaging. I sit down and cut out all of the batteries from the new packaging and place them into one of my old packages. As you indicated this insures that I can carry a package around in my pocket with easy access to a battery when needed. When my hearing aid provider handed me the new box of batteries and warned me about the new packaging I told her of what I was doing and she was surprised and thought it was a great idea.
The batteries I presently obtain through the VA - Rayovac Loud N' Clear - come in a package of 8 with a simple pull tab opening and then rotation of the plastic portion to index with the opening. I will not use a rechargeable battery hearing aid for the simple reason that the charge would not last long enough for me to get through the day without a recharge. With a profound hearing loss I cannot exist without continuous hearing. My problem is that once I have the new battery in hand I lack the dexterity to pull off the little tab covering the air holes. I usually have to resort to using tweezers to do this. There is one brand - can't remember the name - that has a longer tab I was able to use, but the VA apparently does not supply those anymore. So once I am only able to obtain the new packaging, I'll be stuck with two problems. To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, "It's the government that is the problem."
I’ve been saying since the new packaging started that this will kill MORE children and pets. What people are doing are cutting straight across, dropping all the batteries out, and storing them loose now. I’ve been telling people to write their representatives. I’ve been asked over and over, “What do I do when traveling on airplanes? I can’t carry scissors with me!” The law had good and worthy intentions, but this packaging is much more dangerous now.
3:16 pm est, it's easier to open a can of vegetables , it drove me nuts trying to open the new package. Any recommendations for rechargeable hearing aids under 2000.00?
They did no failure modes and effects analysis on the so called “solution”. It will drive users to batch open the whole package thus leaving more unpackaged batteries laying around. Additionally no thought was given to batteries that are “dead” and need to be disposed of. I’d think that is more of a risk for children ingesting them.
After your previous video about this, my wife and I went out and bought a year's supply of hearing aid batteries with the older packaging. We'll be saving the packets for reuse.
As an audiologist these new battery packs are a nightmare!!. I have dexterity issues myself with arthritis and can just barely succeed in getting out a battery from the new packs. However, your tip about cutting beside the little blister in the center made it much easier. I was trying to cut through each blister and it made it impossible to then get the battery out even after cutting through both sides. That said, I have been cutting the whole pack open and putting them down separately on my desk for use when working with patients. Of course if there were kids around, these would then be much more likely to look like something they could eat as opposed to a whole pack of batteries which they probably not be able to open by themselves. Also as mentioned by your previous commenters, this does not take into account the spent batteries that they could easily swallow after being thrown out or left on a table or desk!! The sharp edges of the cut packaging are likely to cause some injuries as well as accidents with the scissors. This was no well thought out. I have been ordering batteries from out of the country for some time and will continue to do so as long as they are available for my use and for my patients.
Pre-cutting batteries out also ruins the batteries if they’re stored against each other. You have to keep them separate- like in the package or a “battery keeper” case.
I'm keeping a few packages of the old type and will cut all the batteries out of the new packaging (once I'm forced to buy it) and painstakingly place each battery into one of the empty slots. It's going to be a real time waster, but I need to get to my batteries quickly when I get the low battery signal and not get stuck being deaf at work. There's no kids around me at work or at home.
It upsets me a lot. I was prescribed my current hearing aids a couple of years ago and was not aware of this law - maybe it hadn't been introduced yet, not sure. AFAIK, the style I have doesn't even come in a rechargeable version. I can't afford to just buy a new pair in a behind-the-ear rechargeable style right now, especially when my current ones aren't that old. Now I'm going to have to spend extra time and effort to get all the batteries out of the packaging somehow and keep them loose in a container, I guess, so I can get to them easily while I'm working. I still work and need to be able to hear. I don't have any little kids in my life AT ALL, and my pets cannot get into the packaging, so that's not a concern for me, either. I really don't think this is going to save any kids, honestly, because now people are just going to get the batteries out of the packaging all at one time (if they can) and keep them in an easily-accessible container so they can hurry up and put in new batteries when needed. I could write a book about this, but this was a very poorly-thought-out law, IMO. Little kids will still be exposed to loose batteries and people with hearing loss will have more difficulty getting new batteries out.
This is a perfect example of bureaucratic good intentions gone wrong. I just found out about this new law by this video, trying to see why all of a sudden my multiple packs of hearing aid batteries were so hard to open. I thought it was some idiotic design by the manufacturer. No, it was all thanks to the 'gubmint'.
I am not yet so elderly that I have any dexterity issues, and I still find this packaging confounding. I carry extra batteries in my purse, so that if my current batteries run out (you only have about 30 minutes after they signal you) I can discretely replace them. It happens while at dinners or out with friends. I don't carry a pair of scissors around with me, and I can no longer easily switch out my hearing aid batteries when they've run out of juice. I hate to have to replace what are otherwise perfectly fine hearing aid with rechargeable ones because of the expense!
The new packaging is horrible. The fact I had to find a video to see if there was an efficient way to make this work says enough. Here's a novel idea, if you don't want children eating the batteries how about putting the batteries in the place of the children can't get access to. Rather than putting responsibility on parents they put it on manufacturers to make their packaging bulletproof. There are plenty of small objects that children can get their hands on and it's up to parents and grandparents to childproof their homes to keep children safe. Instead of difficult packaging, maybe education is a better plan. . When I can afford it, I will get new hearing aids with rechargeable batteries... Rechargeable batteries that I hope will last.
Why aren't we fighting this and advocating for our patients? I am furious. I have patients that are injuring themselves on the new packaging, crying in my office wondering why no one cares about them, and simply not wearing them now. This is outrageous. Consumer Product Safety Commission ignores my emails, I get hung up on while on hold when I call, I can't get anyone to help me with this.
I hate the new packaging. It was so convenient to be able to carry around spare batteries in the old packaging in a pocket or briefcase. Now, you have to carry around a pair scissors to get the batteries out of the package. I fortunately have a few of the old packages around and I will cut and transfer battles from the new packaging to the old packaging until the old packaging falls apart. My audiologist simply assumed that I wanted rechargeable hearing aids when I needed new ones earlier this year. I had him send them back for the model that takes replaceable batteries. Rechargeable hearing aid batteries (both replaceable ones and non-replaceable ones) are ecological and they are better for the environment and they save wear and tear on the battery doors. However, it only takes once for the batteries to recharge when you really need them for the wisdom of replaceable hearing aids to become apparent.
As a product engineering manager, manufacturers DO have design options. Manufacturers CAN arrive at less obstructive packaging if they’re not SOFA KING CHEAP. “Common sense” is just saying “not my problem”. Foreseeable = preventable!!
Totally agreed. There has to be a better packaging design than this. It's like this law is causing battery makers to take it out on patients with hearing loss.
I purchased a round pill box and opened all the batteries at once, placing one battery per slot in the dispenser so I only have to cut open the package about once a month. I wish that the law had made an exemption for hearing aid batteries give low vision, poor dexterity, and arthritic hands common in the age group of the majority of hearing aid users.
We recommend our patient's purchase a cordless handheld power cutter/scissors (Harbor Freight). Or we tell patient's they can drop off a few months' supply of batteries and we'll take them out of the packaging for them, free of charge. We also have them bring in an empty childproof medicine bottle to put the batteries in.
I have severe hearing loss and stream everything I can. Rechargeable HA’s only last, at best, till 6 or 7 pm then what. I can’t hear while they are in the charger. I use disposable batteries and find it ridiculous trying to open these new packs with scissors. I hope they find a better packaging method. I’m all for saving children but they got this one wrong.
I use my hearing aids for extended periods of time and the only solution that I can think of is 2 sets of rechargeable hearing aids, because I don't foresee any incentive to improve packaging. Currently, I obtain batteries through the VA. A week ago, I found it impossible to order on line. I called their order line and was told that they had no batteries and would ship when the next supply arrives. They were unable to tell me when my batteries might arrive.
I have trouble opening the easier to open packages. I don’t have a solution. I did buy up a couple boxes of the old style packaged batteries as soon as I heard about the issue, but eventually I’ll have to use the new packaging. We never have children here, so my work around would be to have a family member extract all of the batteries at once. I don’t want to switch to rechargeable battery hearing aids as we have been without power for extended periods for multiple times. I wouldn’t want to be essentially deaf in those circumstances.
Recently had a hearing test at the V..A. where they decided that I would benefit from new HA's. It was recommended that I use the Phonak Audeo Lumity Slim L-90/R, one of the major factors being this Reese Law. The audiologist presented to me one of the new sealed battery packages that turns out would be a real pain for me to open, so I elected to go with the rechargeables. Anyway, turns out that the rechargeable feature is a plus for me since it contributes to the water resistance of the HA -- not having a battery compartment to open helps to "seal" the aids. I go back to the V.A. audi on November 15 to have them programmed, and after finding out about much of the technology, I'm totally hyped to get them.
I just bought a new pack of batteries and ran into this. I am not elderly, have good hand/finger strength and dexterity and still struggled to get a battery out and basically mangled the whole package. This was not well thought out!
If people who use these batteries, or whatever hazardous item you may speak of, would act responsibly, this wouldn't even be an issue! People just don't seem to want to take responsibility seriously anymore. But, them, I'm getting old and cranky these days.
Here in Canada I don’t see them yet, but What I do is currently transfer them to a flat container that holds about 15 batteries and can be in my wallet. I have been using that for years and it’s more convenient. This law won’t solve any problem, most the batteries that kids finds are the ones that we forget to send to the garbage after removing them from the hearing aid.
This is frustrating! I am bimodal with a CI and a HA. My CI has rechargeable batteries, but I made sure it also has an accessory that will allow me to use disposables. Why? Because we travel. We camp. I don't always have access to electricity. I wear my hearing devices an average of 18 hours a day. It's much easier to have disposables to use at times. Thankfully I have quite a few packs in my drawer but know they do expire. I also have 'old' fingers that will struggle when the time comes that I have to wrestle with this new packaging. Definitely too much government regulation on this!
Cliff, I don’t know what genius came up with with this new HA battery packaging but it stinks. I can not afford to switch to rechargeable and so I’m stuck with this. I have most all my manual dexterity but cutting into this packaging is a real issue for me.
Second choice dumbest idea ever created on the planet not only in my old I have vision problems also so this is just a ridiculous thing to do to a lot of us
I have battery using hearing aids as a backup and a pair of Oticon rechargeables. My hubby has a set that use batteries, so the last time I was in the office where he got them, I bought up all but 1 box with the original packaging. So we are set for a while. Its possible that they will change the containment of those batteries.
It would also be a huge improvement if the HA manufacturers would develop a rechargeable HA that would last 18-22 hours. Mine are always shutting off when I am still awake at around the 12-14 hour mark. Very inconvenient, as I NEVER sleep that long. I try to put them in when awakening and take them out when I go to bed.
So... does this issue with kids ingesting these batteries only matter with new batteries or with spent ones as well? I don't know, but I would like to.
@@karengrim9342 who was I yelling at? I don't see how complaining about packaging was me blaming retail workers. In fact, I'm not sure what retail workers have to do with this battery packaging or this video in any way, shape, or form.
I could be wrong, but I don’t believe that comment was actually aimed at you. I think this person was just commenting in general about there experience of having to deal whith people yelling at the store staff which you got to admit has to be pretty frustrating to have to deal with when it’s not something you have any control over.
I have to use hearing aids with batteries. These packages are just terrible. I can hardly cut the plastic. So, now, since batteries go dead at any time of the day, I must carry scissors with me all day. Or, what is more likely, I am going to take all of them out of the package. I have done that and put them in a baggie and lost the baggie the same day. So now the batteries are loose from the package and anyone can find them. I hope an alternative packaging comes along .
Why cant the batteries be sold in a pill bottle that scrips come in with that safety pain in the butt push down twist off lid than an older person can turn over to use the easy side??
Totally, however hearing aid batteries are disproportionately used by older individuals with poor finger dexterity. This makes the Hearing aid button cell batteries a bigger issue than the other types of batteries.
People who use replacable battery hearing aids because the have power problems should consider a solar power bank. Mine has a power rating of 38800 mah and is solar rechargable. It's a little smaller than my phone dimensionally but slightly heavier. I think I paid around $20 on Amazon. Also has emergency LED fashlight. It could charge my hearing aids many times. Has 2 USB ports and a USB C port for charging.
@@robertkalita1598 Battery life on my aids is about 30 hours between charges so I charge overnight and if I'm away my charger can recharge my aids 3 times before I have to recharge it. I'm 85 and couldn't handle the new packaging.
I will wait for new hearing aids that will recharge and last longer. I watch >8 hrs a day of TV which drains the battery. Until then I will mass cut the battery package and store in a container.
So like in Australia its a $500 difference between having disposable batteries or rechargeable....i choose disposable cause i dont have kids....i do have a pet i change when a change is needed when my pet not around plus ive heard rechargeables are not all they are crapped up to be. So if disposable's are eventually banned or what ever it should be up to your provider to switch you over to rechargeables at NO EXTRA COST to you....That could cost the industry millions of dollars......so really is worth pissing people off?
I’m disappointed with my brand new rechargeable hearing aid. My worst anxiety over daily battery life is coming true. I start getting recharge notifications after 13-14 hours. So i have to plan my day around the ability to pop in a hearing aid for 20-30 minutes. At least the cochlear that I have uses REPLACEABLE rechargeable batteries. And this is a new hearing aid (advertised as “up to 24 hours use”). I can only imagine after a year of daily recharging what my useable hours will be. Government regulations are being used to control more and more of our lives!
I think this regulation was popular with lawmakers because it's something both sides can easily agree on to "save the children" and advertise to their constituents that they are helping keep kids safe. But in reality, this will make very little difference, if any, for kids and cause a lot of difficulty for people with hearing loss and possibly other disabilities such as problems with manual dexterity.
Glad to see this video! I was unaware this change was coming, and found out a couple months ago when my supply of 312 batteries ran low. I was immediately suspicious upon seeing the packaging, but then it just became a nightmare to open. After a couple instances of struggling with the new packaging, it got to the point where I joked to my wife that I'll become a single-issue voter on this alone for whoever will repeal this law.
I prefer disposables because I stream heavily and my hearing is so bad that I need to wear hearing aids the entire day. I only sleep 6-7 hours most days, so that's about 17 hours of usage (maybe 16.5 if I deduct the time for showering and drying my ears after). I'd be open to rechargeable, but so far the best figure I've heard for battery life with rechargeable and lots of streaming is about 14-15 hours at most.
I hope someone will make a carrier for hearing aid batteries that works sort of like how those daily vitamin/supplement dispensers work. Then I can just open the new packaging, remove the batteries, and place them in a separate dispenser for easier use and carrying.
Thanks to an earlier video you posted about the impending packaging change, I immediately started keeping all of my old battery packages. So I have a collection of the old style packages. I just got a new box of the new packaging. I sit down and cut out all of the batteries from the new packaging and place them into one of my old packages. As you indicated this insures that I can carry a package around in my pocket with easy access to a battery when needed. When my hearing aid provider handed me the new box of batteries and warned me about the new packaging I told her of what I was doing and she was surprised and thought it was a great idea.
The batteries I presently obtain through the VA - Rayovac Loud N' Clear - come in a package of 8 with a simple pull tab opening and then rotation of the plastic portion to index with the opening. I will not use a rechargeable battery hearing aid for the simple reason that the charge would not last long enough for me to get through the day without a recharge. With a profound hearing loss I cannot exist without continuous hearing. My problem is that once I have the new battery in hand I lack the dexterity to pull off the little tab covering the air holes. I usually have to resort to using tweezers to do this. There is one brand - can't remember the name - that has a longer tab I was able to use, but the VA apparently does not supply those anymore. So once I am only able to obtain the new packaging, I'll be stuck with two problems. To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, "It's the government that is the problem."
I’ve been saying since the new packaging started that this will kill MORE children and pets. What people are doing are cutting straight across, dropping all the batteries out, and storing them loose now. I’ve been telling people to write their representatives. I’ve been asked over and over, “What do I do when traveling on airplanes? I can’t carry scissors with me!” The law had good and worthy intentions, but this packaging is much more dangerous now.
Totally agree with you 💯
3:16 pm est, it's easier to open a can of vegetables , it drove me nuts trying to open the new package. Any recommendations for rechargeable hearing aids under 2000.00?
And it’s ridiculous to think they would DO AWAY with battery powered hearing aids bc of this issue. Where is the logic??? Consumers need to speak up!
It won’t help! Reach out to state legislators this is unfair and denies us access
@ yessss!!!! Do it!!!! Also, let’s find out WHO put this in effect. It’s an ADA issue tbh.
They did no failure modes and effects analysis on the so called “solution”. It will drive users to batch open the whole package thus leaving more unpackaged batteries laying around. Additionally no thought was given to batteries that are “dead” and need to be disposed of. I’d think that is more of a risk for children ingesting them.
Most people who wear hearing aids are seniors. NO KIDS AT HOME. Duh!!!!?
One more example of government screwing something up................ Thanks for all your help in disseminating info to us hearing impaired people.
After your previous video about this, my wife and I went out and bought a year's supply of hearing aid batteries with the older packaging. We'll be saving the packets for reuse.
As an audiologist these new battery packs are a nightmare!!. I have dexterity issues myself with arthritis and can just barely succeed in getting out a battery from the new packs. However, your tip about cutting beside the little blister in the center made it much easier. I was trying to cut through each blister and it made it impossible to then get the battery out even after cutting through both sides.
That said, I have been cutting the whole pack open and putting them down separately on my desk for use when working with patients. Of course if there were kids around, these would then be much more likely to look like something they could eat as opposed to a whole pack of batteries which they probably not be able to open by themselves. Also as mentioned by your previous commenters, this does not take into account the spent batteries that they could easily swallow after being thrown out or left on a table or desk!!
The sharp edges of the cut packaging are likely to cause some injuries as well as accidents with the scissors. This was no well thought out.
I have been ordering batteries from out of the country for some time and will continue to do so as long as they are available for my use and for
my patients.
Pre-cutting batteries out also ruins the batteries if they’re stored against each other. You have to keep them separate- like in the package or a “battery keeper” case.
I'm keeping a few packages of the old type and will cut all the batteries out of the new packaging (once I'm forced to buy it) and painstakingly place each battery into one of the empty slots. It's going to be a real time waster, but I need to get to my batteries quickly when I get the low battery signal and not get stuck being deaf at work. There's no kids around me at work or at home.
It upsets me a lot. I was prescribed my current hearing aids a couple of years ago and was not aware of this law - maybe it hadn't been introduced yet, not sure. AFAIK, the style I have doesn't even come in a rechargeable version. I can't afford to just buy a new pair in a behind-the-ear rechargeable style right now, especially when my current ones aren't that old.
Now I'm going to have to spend extra time and effort to get all the batteries out of the packaging somehow and keep them loose in a container, I guess, so I can get to them easily while I'm working. I still work and need to be able to hear. I don't have any little kids in my life AT ALL, and my pets cannot get into the packaging, so that's not a concern for me, either.
I really don't think this is going to save any kids, honestly, because now people are just going to get the batteries out of the packaging all at one time (if they can) and keep them in an easily-accessible container so they can hurry up and put in new batteries when needed.
I could write a book about this, but this was a very poorly-thought-out law, IMO. Little kids will still be exposed to loose batteries and people with hearing loss will have more difficulty getting new batteries out.
This is a perfect example of bureaucratic good intentions gone wrong. I just found out about this new law by this video, trying to see why all of a sudden my multiple packs of hearing aid batteries were so hard to open. I thought it was some idiotic design by the manufacturer. No, it was all thanks to the 'gubmint'.
I am not yet so elderly that I have any dexterity issues, and I still find this packaging confounding. I carry extra batteries in my purse, so that if my current batteries run out (you only have about 30 minutes after they signal you) I can discretely replace them. It happens while at dinners or out with friends. I don't carry a pair of scissors around with me, and I can no longer easily switch out my hearing aid batteries when they've run out of juice. I hate to have to replace what are otherwise perfectly fine hearing aid with rechargeable ones because of the expense!
The new packaging is horrible. The fact I had to find a video to see if there was an efficient way to make this work says enough. Here's a novel idea, if you don't want children eating the batteries how about putting the batteries in the place of the children can't get access to. Rather than putting responsibility on parents they put it on manufacturers to make their packaging bulletproof. There are plenty of small objects that children can get their hands on and it's up to parents and grandparents to childproof their homes to keep children safe. Instead of difficult packaging, maybe education is a better plan.
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When I can afford it, I will get new hearing aids with rechargeable batteries... Rechargeable batteries that I hope will last.
Why aren't we fighting this and advocating for our patients? I am furious. I have patients that are injuring themselves on the new packaging, crying in my office wondering why no one cares about them, and simply not wearing them now. This is outrageous. Consumer Product Safety Commission ignores my emails, I get hung up on while on hold when I call, I can't get anyone to help me with this.
I hate the new packaging. It was so convenient to be able to carry around spare batteries in the old packaging in a pocket or briefcase. Now, you have to carry around a pair scissors to get the batteries out of the package. I fortunately have a few of the old packages around and I will cut and transfer battles from the new packaging to the old packaging until the old packaging falls apart. My audiologist simply assumed that I wanted rechargeable hearing aids when I needed new ones earlier this year. I had him send them back for the model that takes replaceable batteries. Rechargeable hearing aid batteries (both replaceable ones and non-replaceable ones) are ecological and they are better for the environment and they save wear and tear on the battery doors. However, it only takes once for the batteries to recharge when you really need them for the wisdom of replaceable hearing aids to become apparent.
As a product engineering manager, manufacturers DO have design options. Manufacturers CAN arrive at less obstructive packaging if they’re not SOFA KING CHEAP. “Common sense” is just saying “not my problem”. Foreseeable = preventable!!
agreed
Totally agreed. There has to be a better packaging design than this. It's like this law is causing battery makers to take it out on patients with hearing loss.
I purchased a round pill box and opened all the batteries at once, placing one battery per slot in the dispenser so I only have to cut open the package about once a month. I wish that the law had made an exemption for hearing aid batteries give low vision, poor dexterity, and arthritic hands common in the age group of the majority of hearing aid users.
We recommend our patient's purchase a cordless handheld power cutter/scissors (Harbor Freight). Or we tell patient's they can drop off a few months' supply of batteries and we'll take them out of the packaging for them, free of charge. We also have them bring in an empty childproof medicine bottle to put the batteries in.
I have severe hearing loss and stream everything I can. Rechargeable HA’s only last, at best, till 6 or 7 pm then what. I can’t hear while they are in the charger. I use disposable batteries and find it ridiculous trying to open these new packs with scissors. I hope they find a better packaging method. I’m all for saving children but they got this one wrong.
I use my hearing aids for extended periods of time and the only solution that I can think of is 2 sets of rechargeable hearing aids, because I don't foresee any incentive to improve packaging.
Currently, I obtain batteries through the VA. A week ago, I found it impossible to order on line. I called their order line and was told that they had no batteries and would ship when the next supply arrives. They were unable to tell me when my batteries might arrive.
I have trouble opening the easier to open packages. I don’t have a solution. I did buy up a couple boxes of the old style packaged batteries as soon as I heard about the issue, but eventually I’ll have to use the new packaging. We never have children here, so my work around would be to have a family member extract all of the batteries at once. I don’t want to switch to rechargeable battery hearing aids as we have been without power for extended periods for multiple times. I wouldn’t want to be essentially deaf in those circumstances.
Totally understand your issue. Drives me crazy that they don't make these more user friendly.
Recently had a hearing test at the V..A. where they decided that I would benefit from new HA's. It was recommended that I use the Phonak Audeo Lumity Slim L-90/R, one of the major factors being this Reese Law. The audiologist presented to me one of the new sealed battery packages that turns out would be a real pain for me to open, so I elected to go with the rechargeables. Anyway, turns out that the rechargeable feature is a plus for me since it contributes to the water resistance of the HA -- not having a battery compartment to open helps to "seal" the aids. I go back to the V.A. audi on November 15 to have them programmed, and after finding out about much of the technology, I'm totally hyped to get them.
I just bought a new pack of batteries and ran into this. I am not elderly, have good hand/finger strength and dexterity and still struggled to get a battery out and basically mangled the whole package. This was not well thought out!
Maybe the parents need to be made more accountable. Put the batteries away somewhere!
My Link M isn’t available with rechargeable batteries as an option. And before I got the CI, the Phonak SP aids weren’t rechargeable either.
Design a one push device that cuts all around the battery.
This sounds like the perfect plan for Kennedy, the new health care guru, as soon as he gets in.
Makes me want to go buy as many of the “old fashioned” battery packs as I can find. (Yes, I have problems with hand dexterity.)
If people who use these batteries, or whatever hazardous item you may speak of, would act responsibly, this wouldn't even be an issue! People just don't seem to want to take responsibility seriously anymore. But, them, I'm getting old and cranky these days.
Severe and profound hearing loss here. I need batteries PERIOD. GOVERNMENT SUCKS !
Just opened my first pack of batteries with the new packaging. What can I say but getting them out really, really sucks!6
Here in Canada I don’t see them yet, but What I do is currently transfer them to a flat container that holds about 15 batteries and can be in my wallet. I have been using that for years and it’s more convenient. This law won’t solve any problem, most the batteries that kids finds are the ones that we forget to send to the garbage after removing them from the hearing aid.
Yep, the solution doesn’t do a damn thing about dead batteries.
This is frustrating! I am bimodal with a CI and a HA. My CI has rechargeable batteries, but I made sure it also has an accessory that will allow me to use disposables. Why? Because we travel. We camp. I don't always have access to electricity. I wear my hearing devices an average of 18 hours a day. It's much easier to have disposables to use at times. Thankfully I have quite a few packs in my drawer but know they do expire. I also have 'old' fingers that will struggle when the time comes that I have to wrestle with this new packaging. Definitely too much government regulation on this!
Protecting us from ourselves and doing it for the children.
kids need and use hearing aid batteries too! It doesn't protect anyone lol
Makes it impossible to get the batteries out, I am lucky I am could get rechargeable Starkey hearing aides.
I think that is a good choice.
Cliff, I don’t know what genius came up with with this new HA battery packaging but it stinks. I can not afford to switch to rechargeable and so I’m stuck with this. I have most all my manual dexterity but cutting into this packaging is a real issue for me.
Second choice dumbest idea ever created on the planet not only in my old I have vision problems also so this is just a ridiculous thing to do to a lot of us
I have battery using hearing aids as a backup and a pair of Oticon rechargeables. My hubby has a set that use batteries, so the last time I was in the office where he got them, I bought up all but 1 box with the original packaging. So we are set for a while. Its possible that they will change the containment of those batteries.
I'm so glad that I have been using rechargeable hearing aids from the start. 👍
Just a FYI they have a STL file you can download for free and have someone 3D print it for you. My son is currently printing one for me to try.
It would also be a huge improvement if the HA manufacturers would develop a rechargeable HA that would last 18-22 hours. Mine are always shutting off when I am still awake at around the 12-14 hour mark. Very inconvenient, as I NEVER sleep that long. I try to put them in when awakening and take them out when I go to bed.
What if the kids swallow the entire hearing aid?
So... does this issue with kids ingesting these batteries only matter with new batteries or with spent ones as well? I don't know, but I would like to.
Usually “dead” batteries still have some life in them. They still contain nasty chemicals even when dead.
And stop yelling at retail workers about it! WE did not change it, WE did not design it, and WE don't like it any better than you do! 😊
@@karengrim9342 who was I yelling at? I don't see how complaining about packaging was me blaming retail workers. In fact, I'm not sure what retail workers have to do with this battery packaging or this video in any way, shape, or form.
I could be wrong, but I don’t believe that comment was actually aimed at you. I think this person was just commenting in general about there experience of having to deal whith people yelling at the store staff which you got to admit has to be pretty frustrating to have to deal with when it’s not something you have any control over.
I have to use hearing aids with batteries. These packages are just terrible. I can hardly cut the plastic. So, now, since batteries go dead at any time of the day, I must carry scissors with me all day. Or, what is more likely, I am going to take all of them out of the package. I have done that and put them in a baggie and lost the baggie the same day. So now the batteries are loose from the package and anyone can find them. I hope an alternative packaging comes along .
Yes, a big problem. I don't want to go without hearing for hours while I am awake.
Why cant the batteries be sold in a pill bottle that scrips come in with that safety pain in the butt push down twist off lid than an older person can turn over to use the easy side??
I cut out 3 or 4 batteries at a time and put them in a plastic pill pouch, which I carry in my pocket.
It’s not just hearing aid batteries that are being packaged that way.
Totally, however hearing aid batteries are disproportionately used by older individuals with poor finger dexterity. This makes the Hearing aid button cell batteries a bigger issue than the other types of batteries.
Pressing like button does nothing. At this time you have a zero.
Can you explain what you mean by that?
Try being “logged in” to UTube?
thanks for trying anyway
People who use replacable battery hearing aids because the have power problems should consider a solar power bank. Mine has a power rating of 38800 mah and is solar rechargable. It's a little smaller than my phone dimensionally but slightly heavier. I think I paid around $20 on Amazon. Also has emergency LED fashlight. It could charge my hearing aids many times. Has 2 USB ports and a USB C port for charging.
And how do I hear when I am recharging the hearing aids. I hate rechargeables.
@@robertkalita1598 Battery life on my aids is about 30 hours between charges so I charge overnight and if I'm away my charger can recharge my aids 3 times before I have to recharge it. I'm 85 and couldn't handle the new packaging.
I will wait for new hearing aids that will recharge and last longer. I watch >8 hrs a day of TV which drains the battery. Until then I will mass cut the battery package and store in a container.
So like in Australia its a $500 difference between having disposable batteries or rechargeable....i choose disposable cause i dont have kids....i do have a pet i change when a change is needed when my pet not around plus ive heard rechargeables are not all they are crapped up to be. So if disposable's are eventually banned or what ever it should be up to your provider to switch you over to rechargeables at NO EXTRA COST to you....That could cost the industry millions of dollars......so really is worth pissing people off?
this new packaging is not happening in canada
@@TrueAudio true. Just an American thing. 🙄
Im visually impaired this is very difficult to open
well in a way it does defeat itself what about the dead batteries kids and pet get at than what
It is not the dead batteries that's the issue, good batteries burn right through our bodies tissue with electricity when ingested.
Dumbest idea
I won’t buy them
I’m disappointed with my brand new rechargeable hearing aid. My worst anxiety over daily battery life is coming true. I start getting recharge notifications after 13-14 hours. So i have to plan my day around the ability to pop in a hearing aid for 20-30 minutes. At least the cochlear that I have uses REPLACEABLE rechargeable batteries. And this is a new hearing aid (advertised as “up to 24 hours use”). I can only imagine after a year of daily recharging what my useable hours will be. Government regulations are being used to control more and more of our lives!
I think this regulation was popular with lawmakers because it's something both sides can easily agree on to "save the children" and advertise to their constituents that they are helping keep kids safe. But in reality, this will make very little difference, if any, for kids and cause a lot of difficulty for people with hearing loss and possibly other disabilities such as problems with manual dexterity.
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Are you going to test Apples new ear pro hearing aids?
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