| Age-related decline in eye is common among people | | | | and eye structures, including pupil size, tears |
| in their 60s or older. Some eye problems such as | | | | production, peripheral and color vision, vitreous and so |
| presbyopia and cataracts are quite normal, while | | | | on. |
| more serious age-related eye cheap eyeglasses such | | | | The pupil becomes smaller and less responsive to |
| as glaucoma, macular degeneration and diabetic | | | | changes in ambient lighting as people age. As a result, |
| retinopathy may affect old people's daily lives. | | | | older individuals always need more ambient light for |
| Presbyopia is to some content inevitable in people | | | | comfortable reading. They may get help from |
| above 40, which causes individuals difficult in | | | | photochromic lenses or lenses with anti-reflective |
| managing up close tasks. As people grow older, | | | | coatings. Aging also makes the eyes to generate |
| presbyopia also advances. As presbyopia develops, | | | | fewer tears, especially in women after menopause. |
| people may be forced to keep more than one pair of | | | | Artificial tears can be prescribed to ease symptoms |
| plastic eyeglasses or change glasses with a higher | | | | such as burning and stinging caused resulted from dry |
| prescription. Solutions to presbyopia include reading | | | | eye. |
| glasses, multifocal contact lenses or $10 eyeglasses, | | | | Older people also suffer peripheral vision loss, which is |
| monovision LASIK and conductive keratoplasty. | | | | quite harmful during driving. Older motorists need |
| About half of all 65-year-old Americans suffer some | | | | more attention when approaching intersections. Color |
| degree of cataracts, and the number of cataract | | | | vision and color sensitivity declines are also quite |
| patients will reach 30 million by 2020. There are so | | | | common in old people, which result from the aging of |
| large a number of cataracts cases that this eye | | | | related retinal cells that are responsible for color |
| disease has been considered as a normal ageing | | | | perception. Unfortunately, there is no effective |
| change. Cataract surgery is the most widely applied | | | | treatment for decreased color vision. Aging may bring |
| treatment, which removes cloudy cataracts on the | | | | vitreous detachment, resulting in spots and floaters |
| lens. Multifocal lens implants during a cataract surgery | | | | as well as flashes in the visual field. These symptoms |
| can restore vision at all distances. | | | | may signify a detached retina that is likely to cause |
| Common age-related eye diseases include macular | | | | blindness. |
| degeneration, glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy. | | | | Treatments of age-related vision changes involve |
| Age-related macular degeneration has been the | | | | some other factors. eye exams from professional |
| leading cause of blindness in American seniors. People | | | | optometrists or ophthalmologists are important to |
| in their 80s develop glaucoma at a 12 percentage. | | | | detect vision problems. And old people should tell their |
| The National Eye Institute estimates that 40% of | | | | doctors about family vision history, current taking |
| the 10.2 million of diagnosed diabetic patients have | | | | medications and other conditions that may be |
| some degree of diabetic retinopathy. | | | | associated with vision health. Eye health also requires |
| Natural aging involves various subtle changes in vision | | | | a healthy diet and smoking quitting. |