Sensory System Changes and Adaptations in the Older Adults: Vision

Question 1

Presbyopia

Answer 1

Visual loss in middle and older ages characterized by inability to focus properly and blurred images.

Question 2

Low Vision

Answer 2

Visual impairment that standard eyeglasses, contact lenses, medication or surgery cannot correct.

Question 3

Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Answer 3

“Black Spot” in the central visual field, blurred details and the sharp/central vision.

Question 4

Diabetic Retinopathy

Answer 4

A complication of diabetes that affect the eyes. This is caused by damage to the blood vessels of the light-sensitive tissues at the back of the eye
Affects central and peripheral vision causing blurred or hazy vision in affected areas.
May lead to total blindness

Question 5

Glaucoma

Answer 5

Chronic elevated pressure in the eye that may cause optic nerve atrophy and loss of peripheral vision
Commonly knowns as a Tunnel vision as it starts from peripheral visual fields and comest to center.

Question 6

Cataracts

Answer 6

Vision is overall hazy and blurry especially in glaring light when reading printed materials
Decreased contrast sensitivity

Question 7

Homonymous Hemianopsia

Answer 7

A visual field deficit in which half of the visual field is lost in each eye.

Question 8

Diplopia

Answer 8

May require eye path.