Senior Sight

As a person ages, they may experience certain problems with their sight including cataracts, macular degeneration, and general vision loss. Some of these problems can be fixed with medicine of surgery but others cannot. Learn what causes these problems and how to help an aging parent cope.

Articles About Senior Sight

Protecting Senior Skin from the Summer Sun
Everyone wants and needs a little sunshine, but the sun's rays can be damaging to an elderly person's skin. Dermatologist Arielle Kauvar talks about ways to protect senior skin from damaging UVA and UVB rays using sunscreen, sun protective clothing, sunglasses and other methods.
How to Prevent Seniors from Falling
Falls and fractures are not an inevitable part of growing older -- many can be prevented if caregivers and their elderly parents take a few simple precautions.
How to Convince Your Parent to Move to Assisted Living
Persuading an elderly parent to move to assisted living or a nursing home is never easy. Here are some tips that can help you get a resistant elderly to move to assisted living.
Should You Be Worried About Your Parent Driving A Car?
To drive or not to drive? Its a dilemma that many caregivers and their aging parents face at some point - and there's no easy answer.
10 Caregiver Confessions: Secrets We Aren’t Proud Of
Wouldn’t it be nice to be a caregiver who had only loving thoughts every moment of the caregiving day? Reality is, you can probably relate to these 10 true and "not-so-nice" confessions from caregivers.
Study Reveals a Gene That Causes Age-Related Macular Degeneration
A team of researchers has determined that variations in certain genes involved in fighting infection can successfully predict the risk of developing age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in seniors.

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