Impact of the Severity of Distance and Near-Vision Impairment on Depression and Vision-Specific Quality of Life in Older People Living in Residential Care

Abstract

VI remains a major form of disability in individuals living in residential care facilities and affects vision-specific functioning and socioemotional aspects of daily living. A larger study is needed to confirm these findings.

Impact of Visual Impairment on Vision-Specific Quality of Life among Older Adults Living in Nursing Home

“…[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] Major causes of irreversible blindness such as retinal diseases, glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) as well as reversible causes like cataract are common in nursing homes. It is vital that vision care not be ignored in this population.…”

“…1,12,13 VI has significant and deleterious impact on quality of life (QoL) and reduces vision-related QoL. 2,3,5,6,14 Vision-related QoL is the present visual status and the limitations in daily living activities like personal hygiene, communication, self-care, social skills, mobility, safety etc. as perceived by the subjects.…”

Participation of the elderly after vision loss

“…In addition to the effect of aging, vision loss may not only lead to difficulties in performing activities [11][12][13][14][15][16][17] but also to loss of activities [18,19], dependency [20][21][22] and social isolation [23]. Vision loss is related to depression [24][25][26][27] and emotional distress [28] and has a negative impact on health-related quality of life [15,[28][29][30][31][32][33]. Besides, it is regarded an important factor of disability [23].…”

The Impact of Self-reported Visual Disability on Quality of Life among Older Persons in a Rural Area of Northeast Thailand: A Follow-up Study

“…As in these studies, those who had difficulty with seeing were found to be older (Horowitz et al, 2005;Jin & Wong, 2008), disproportionately female (Evans et al, 2002;Horowitz et al, 2005;Michon et al, 2002;Nirmalan et al, 2002;Oye & Kuper, 2007;Song et al, 2010;Wong et al, 2008), and to have a poorer perception of health (Chia et al, 2004;LaGrow et al, 2009;J. J. Wang et al, 2000) and lower rating of QOL (Bekibele & Gureje, 2008a;LaGrow, Alpass, Stephens, & Towers, 2011a;LaGrow et al, 2011b;Lamoureux, Fenwick, Moore, Klaic, Borschmann, & Hill, 2009;Nutheti, Shamanna, Nirmalan, Keeffe, Krishnaiah, Rao, & Thomas, 2006;Tran, Mahdi, Sivasubramaniam, Gudlavalleti, Gilbert, Shah, Ezelum, Abubakar, & Bankole, 2011;C. W. Wang, Chan, Ho, & Xiong, 2008) than those who were not.…”