Olive Beal from Kent, who has failing eyesight and uses a wheelchair, finds it difficult to hear with her five-year-old analogue hearing aid and needs a digital version that cuts out background noise and makes conversation easier.

However, the 108-year-old has been told she must wait at least 18 months before she receives a new hearing aid.
Mrs Beal, a former piano teacher who was involved in the suffragette movement, would be 110 by the time she gets her new hearing aid. "I could be dead by then," she said.

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