An 86-year-old Croydon man is able to read the newspaper and help his wife with the gardening again after he received a pioneering therapy A man in his 80s and a woman in her 60s have regained the ability to read following a ‘ground-breaking’ wet AMD treatment derived from stem cells. The therapy was successfully [...]
Help us prevent avoidable sight loss by telling people that smoking causes blindness Things may have been very different for people like Kath had she known. Kath, who was diagnosed with AMD around 10 years ago, said: “I had no idea smoking could damage eye sight. If I had known I definitely wouldn’t have smoked [...]
This information was developed by the National Eye Institute to help patients and their families search for general information about age-related macula degeneration. An eye care professional who has examined the patient’s eyes and is familiar with his or her medical history is the best person to answer specific questions. What is AMD? AMD is a [...]
Last night I attended a meeting about living with dementia. My ex mother in law has dementia and I was keen to learn more about the condition and how the way in which I interact with sufferers and their families both personally and professionally. As a result of the meeting I have become a Dementia [...]
One in six people questioned as part of new research from Optegra said they couldn’t be bothered to go for a sight test 04 May 2017 by Emily McCormick Almost 10 million Brits are at risk of losing their sight because they “can’t be bothered” to go for a sight test, a new report published [...]
Researchers are stressing that maintaining vision is key to the wider health and wellbeing of older adults. The importance of elderly patients’ vision has once again been highlighted, after the release of a new study examining the impact of visual impairment on physical and mental health. German researchers followed nearly 2400 people aged between 77 [...]
