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As your elder ages their eyesight may seem to be getting worse. Your elder may need to get an eye exam and check to see if your parent may have cataracts or some other eye disorder. We noticed that my husband’s grandmother wasn’t reading as much as she used to. We asked her what the issue was and she just said she didn’t feel like reading anymore. Well, we eventually got her to the eye doctor and it turns out that she had cataracts in both of her eyes. She is a pill and we had a hard time getting her to do the surgery. Finally she agreed to get one eye done and she did very well with the surgery. A month later, the second eye was done and she has pretty good vision now. She is able to read books again. What a joy the results were for her. A cataract is a clouding of the eye's natural lens, which lies behind the iris and the pupil. The lens works much like a camera lens, focusing light onto the retina at the back of the eye. The lens also adjusts the eye's focus, letting us see things clearly both up close and far away.
Below is a video that I found that describes cataracts:
Posted by Mary on June 19, 2009 at 1:49 PM under
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