Sensorimotor/Vision changes

Question 1

Brain structural changes associated with aging result in?

Answer 1

Subtle slowing and deterioration of executive order function-in contrast, disease causes remarkable impairment of executive function ( i.e. memory, reasoning, language, and integrative functions)

Question 2

Vision: Visual acuity

Answer 2

Discrimination of fine details declines gradually before the 6th decade & rapidly from age 60-80; affects ability to read

Question 3

Presbyopia:

Answer 3

Difficulty focusing on near objects is the most common visual problem amoung older adults

Question 4

Difficulty processing glare and abrupt changes in light:

Answer 4

Night driving, walking into a dark or bright room, reading shiny signs

Question 5

Color Discrimination changes:

Answer 5

resulting in most difficulty identifying bles and greens

Question 6

Changes in ocular motor systems :

Answer 6

resulting in compromised convergence (coordinated movement of two eyes)

Question 7

Ocular motor:

Ptosis:

Answer 7

dropping of eyelids

Question 8

Symmetrical restriction in

Answer 8

Upward gaze

Question 9

Smooth pursuit:

Answer 9

Know it is changes in ocular motor system

Question 10

Saccades:

Answer 10

Fast eye movements

Question 11

Optokinetic nystagmus:

Answer 11

involuntary rhythmic eye movements

Question 12

Self corrections for improved _____ acuity may not lead to ______ functional ______

Answer 12

visual
enhanced
vision