The time to prepare for successful ageing is now. There are great Chances for one to experience both the joy and the frustration of old age. Ageing is an unavoidable fact of life and with it comes some fewchallenges.Manypeople begin to notice vision changes in their forties.In Nigeria, it was estimated that about1.13 million individuals age 40 years are currently blind, 2.7 million adults aged 40 years are estimated to have moderate visual impairment and an additional 400,000 adults are severely visually impaired. Also 4.25 million adults aged 40 years in Nigeria are visually impaired or blind 1 The eye is an organ for sight and vision system. The sight is one of the most important sense organ needed for anyone to live happily 2 Our sight might start having some age-related changes and disturbances in performance as we age particularly as we reach the age of 60 and beyond 3 Some of the age-related eye diseases that have greater potential for affecting our quality of life and productivity as we grow older are glaucoma, macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy 3 . Just as the body ages, so will the eye sight begin to change and age too visual acuity might also get affected. This change could be caused by heredity, environment, behaviour, weather and even the kind of work we do while we are young. The good thing is that nearly all age-related eye diseases can be treated with either medicine, out-patient surgery, diet and behaviour modification. Other age-related eye diseases are cataracts, presbyopia, dry eyes, floaters, and dystrophy, drooping eyelids, etc.Many changes are normal and common as one age therefore, all that is needed is proper management and early detection. These changes includes losing focus that is making it harder to focus, vision up close, declining contrast and colour sensitivity making it harder to distinguish between colours such as blue from black, or where an object ends and its background begin, needing more light to see well and more time to adjust to changing levels of light. One might need light when going from a room that is dark to one that is brightly lit and while reading, driving all doing some daily activities
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