I brought my 92 year old Mom , who has some degree of dementia, to them. Mom had lost 2 pair of…read morehearing aids, we got from another business, that sold through our Ear Nose Throat Dr. The 1st pair of hearing aids cost $8,000. Luckily Moms great insurance had paid for them.
Costco was so much more affordable, without insurance. The price was a huge factor for going there. The service was good. The service did not include the hours of training Mom was given at the Drs establishment, but Mom did not remember her training anyway. We just wanted a good pair of hearing aids at a cost we could afford. I was given all the information I needed to figure it out myself, from the manual, and a utube site provided to me. Our Costco Rep set all the settings for Mom, so we did not have to touch them.
I brought Mom in to Costco a few weeks later, at the end of a busy day for them. We didn't have an appt , but Mom was putting the hearing aids in, and inadvertently pushing the control buttons when she was doing it. I was exasperated with her by the time we got to Costco. It's hard to be a caretaker with someone with dementia. I had had a long day myself. We got to Costco, and our assigned Rep said, it was closing, we might have to make an appt. But she took Moms hearing aids and said she could disable the buttons, so Mom coukd not inadvertantly change them. While she was off doing that, a hearing aid student that was sitting there, started answering Moms questions. This student knew exactly what to say to Mom, and handled my Mom in such a compassionate, and wise way! I could have just hugged her!
Mom, who blamed everything she couldn't hear, or that annoyed her with the hearing aids, was listening with interest. She basically told Mom, she needed to make sure that the person who was talking to her, knew that she was wearing hearing aids, and to look at her, while they are talking. Moms biggest issue, is hiding the fact she is wearing aids. This student instinctively seemed to know that. She explained the importance of informing Moms listeners knowing she had hearing aids. She also gave other advise, in such an honest but compassionate, way, I could have hugged her again. Mom walked away happy. I walked away happy, that our original saleswoman had taken the time to disable the hearing aids. Our original saleswomen also gave me some other valuable information about the aids. The student learning had handled Mom, brilliantly, and with great insight, and compassion. I give a big A+ to this hearing center!