random deafness

Profound Unilateral Hearing Loss refers to a total hearing loss on
either side be it on the left side or right side.
Losses less than total are either “Severe Unilateral Hearing Loss”, or just plain “Unilateral Hearing Loss”. The informal term, RED, or, Random Effective Deafness is this website’s main focus describing the reality of living with [...]

Randomly experiencing sound as a meaningless cacophony of noise
lasting for randomly long durations whereupon one is rendered effectively profoundly deaf
Random Effective Deafness
is a useful descriptive term coined to refer to people’s experience of Profound Unilateral Hearing Loss where there is a total loss of hearing on one side, either right or left

Same as anywhere else,
a random event has no causal relation with any prior event – totally unpredictable therefore

Being unable to meaningfully interpret and

Discrimination, Differentiation, Localisation

Discrimination – choosing what one wishes to hear from several inputs
Differentiation – separating out background sound to make sense of speech
Localisation – knowing where sounds originate from

No, one cannot aid that which does not exist

No – age related loss is more like an overall diminuition
and can be helped by amplification as opposed to any loss of actual functional hearing

I always ask for email instead
because I can’t hear the phone in another room
Multiple phones are difficult to locate/guess which one it is that is actually ringing and, in general, people do tend to overtalk each other as the pace quickens, causing me to lose the thread.

Yes,

unwittingly stepping out to cross the road in front of cars, for example.
Bumping into people and maybe spilling hot drinks over them or whatever front of cars, for example.
Bumping into people and maybe spilling hot drinks over them or whatever
Not being able to navigate an escape away from potential dangers [...]

there is ’silence deprivation’
and, ‘noise recruitment’ (sensory overwhelm) at the other extreme and a suppression of the flight or flee instinct due to the localisation problem.