^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^THIS!!!!!!!!^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ And I would add, learn to wear and use them properly. I know an older gentleman who has a set of very good hearing aids and he still can't hear. Why, you ask? I'm glad you asked. Because he 1) will not properly install the part that goes into his ear. If you don't have that part properly placed inside your ear you might as well not wear them. 2) The hearing aids can be controlled with his iPhone. He doesn't know and won't learn how to properly operate his phone, much less how to control the hearing aids with his phone. When he goes to the doctor and gets the hearing aids properly adjusted he always manages to accidentally change something so that they are no longer properly adjusted. But in all this he does have a legitimate excuse. He is 91 years old and his memory is failing. I have sympathy for him, but that doesn't make it any easier to communicate with him.

I have to add that my mother (age 96) has much the same problem, but she recognizes what the problem is. As a result she had the audiologist to disconnect hers from her phone and just give her a couple of adjustments that she can make on the behind the ear part.