A game-play based immersive hearing skills training app to improve personal confidence and hearing capability in social and work environments for people with age related hearing loss.

ear_gym_ Ltd.（ear_gym_）是一家在听力健康/福祉领域运营的英国中小企业，其核心团队包括阿曼达·菲尔波特、安迪·尚克斯、詹妮弗·伯特尔斯和摩根·克劳福德。虽然年龄相关性听力损失在全球范围内普遍存在，但对其与社会隔离，轻度认知障碍和痴呆症的相关性的了解相对较新。许多人还没有认识到听力健康的重要性，也没有寻求治疗，而目前的治疗方案或培训计划通常是昂贵的和/或功能/结果有限。ear_gym_正在寻求资金，通过为人们提供工具，通过个性化，ear_gym_与健康老龄化挑战紧密结合，尽可能长时间地保持人们的活跃、生产力、独立和社交联系。帮助人们保持和改善他们的听力将为用户提供健康益处，并为NHS和全球医疗保健系统在预防相关认知下降方面提供成本节约益处，以及基于工作场所的显著经济效益;听力损失的年度全球经济成本估计为9810亿美元（英国为250亿英镑）（McDaid等人，2021年，通过生产力下降和提前退休。

ear_gym_ Ltd. (ear_gym_) is a UK SME operating in the hearing health/well-being sector with a core team of Amanda Philpott, Andy Shanks, Jennifer Birtles and Morgan Crawford. Although age-related hearing loss is prevalent globally, knowledge of its correlation with social isolation, mild cognitive impairment and dementia is relatively recent. Many people do not yet recognise the importance of hearing health and do not seek treatment, while current treatment options or training programmes are often expensive and/or limited in functionality/outcome.ear_gym_ is seeking funding to address this by providing people with the tools to proactively take control of their hearing health through a personalised, enjoyable and affordable game-based digital auditory training programme.ear_gym_ is closely aligned with the Healthy Ageing Challenge to keep people active, productive, independent and socially connected for as long as possible. Helping people maintain and improve their hearing will provide health benefits for the user and cost-saving benefits for the NHS and global healthcare systems in terms of preventing associated cognitive decline, as well as significant workplace-based economic benefit; the annual global economic cost of hearing loss is estimated to be $981 billion (£25 billion in the UK) (McDaid et al., 2021) through lost productivity and early retirement.