Huffington Post recently ran with a great article about eye health for people older than 50. It’s easy to understand and to read, so you might want to recommend it to your older patients. It starts: “Eyesight naturally changes as we age. As we grow older, our eyes go from being able to refocus easily to having a harder time seeing detail, explained Dr. Rachel Bishop of the National Eye Institute. ‘People who used to be able to see well at distances and close up in their 20s will need glasses for reading by their mid-40s.’ But while glasses can help, there's another category of eye problems that post 50s may unwittingly be making worse: eye disease.” Read more.
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