Franck-Olivier Chabbat is a French State-Certified Audioprothésiste (DE) who has fitted hearing aids on more than 3,000 patients — most of them seniors aged 65 to 95 — across 28 years of clinical practice at Amplifon, Audika, 18 Afflelou hearing centers, and as clinical director at Auzen.com. "The technology is the easy part. The hard part is the silence that grows between people before anyone names it. Patients almost never come on their own — their daughter brings them in after they stop attending grandkids' birthdays." In 2025, he stopped retail practice to launch LeGuideAuditif.fr, an independent guide written for seniors who don't want to wait until 80 — and for adult children who finally noticed their parent has been faking it for years. The site demystifies hearing tests, heari...