Many people mistakenly assume that becoming  visually impaired is a part of the normal aging process.

Aging eyes do experience functional vision challenges that negatively affect the person’s life,  including:

• Decreased ability to see detail – difficulty reading, seeing faces, meds, mail, TV, cooking, driving, crossing street, stairs….
• Loss of peripheral vision – mobility problems
• Increased sensitivity to glare
• Needing more light
• More time required to adjust to bright light and/or darkness
• Reduced contrast sensitivity
• Decreased ability to judge depth perception
• Decreased color sensitivity
• Losing Focus

Low vision is not normal aging.

See the module on The Aging Eye