My partner in the Sock Monkey band just ( finally) got hearing aides. He was the bass player in a 8-10 piece R&B band which had a horn section. Those buggers can drown out a Fender Twin.
Curt had a fairly powerful Bass rig with a 2x10 cab right at his shoulders and not far away. Anyhow,, it was brain numingly loud up there. So now we pay nice laid back acoustic stuff and he's always' needing more monitor. I use in Ears so I'm fine but he was reluctant and now with his Aides he seems happy. His have a few settings he can change with the buttons or bluetooth remote and he had one of the programs optimized for live playing. Seems to work and he no longer shouts when he talks.
I've always been careful of my ears but I know my hearing is fading. I can't hear speech now if there's a lot of background noise. Hearing tests are free at most of the places they sell the aides.
It's cool what they do. My wife followed through with hearing aides so I got to watch them being programmed.
They test your hearing and you get a little EQ graph just like we use for our gear.
He plunks that in the software and starts messing with the EQ of the device until you get a flat line.
In other words, if there's a dip in your hearing in the right ear at 800HZ of 10db they give you a 10db boost. Just like playing with a real time analyser.