Your age may have an effect on how easily you hear. Hearing is based upon sound. Sounds are based upon frequencies and decibels.Your age may make a difference on how easily or how well you can hear certain sounds. The chart below shows that as we age, we tend to loose a degree of our ability to hear certain frequencies of sound.

Perhaps a better way to ask the question would be, "What does life have to do with my ability to hear?" Over the course of our lives we have exposed our hearing to all sorts of noise. We can't avoid it. Just by living normal lives, our ability to hear as well as we did when we were babies or teenagers, has decreased. But with hearing aids, we can regain some of that loss.