Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the most common cause of elderly irreversible vision loss in the world.
However, concern has been raised that it may ignore elements of HRQoL of specific relevance to the elderly such as vision and hearing [ 1] and in particular cognition [ 1, 13- 17].
This was partly expected because we examined a fragile study population (elderly with a vision impairment and depression/anxiety) and because the follow-up period was longer than any previous psychological intervention study performed in the specialty of low vision (seven measurements in two years).
The main limitation of our study was related to the difficulties in filling out the self-administered questionnaires by the elderly, whose impaired vision, cognitive-function decline, and medical conditions, which were particularly significant in persons in home care, might have negatively affected the quality of the obtained scores.
Wet age-related macular degeneration, usually called wet AMD, is a common cause of loss of vision in elderly people - each year, at least 23,000 older people are diagnosed with the condition.
The monologues of La Maison, la forêt (1965; "The House, the Forest") offer a bleak, Samuel Beckett-like vision of elderly parents, and Maintenant (1967; "Now") focuses on the mother figure.
In President Bush's vision, the elderly will get a fixed amount of money to be spent in a marketplace of private plans competing for their business.
LOS ANGELES — Elderly people losing their vision from age-related macular degeneration might one day have a treatment option that requires fewer injections into the eye than the standard drug now used.
People who are most likely to benefit from a bionic eye are middle-aged or elderly with very poor vision associated with age-related macular degeneration (a condition that causes degeneration in the cells found in the centre of the retina) or retinitis pigmentosa (a group of hereditary diseases that destroy photosensitive rod and cone cells in the retina).
After college, David worked as a chauffeur for an elderly woman with impaired vision (career advice: "I can't say enough about a blind boss") and as a bra salesman, an experience he later gave to George Costanza, his "Seinfeld" alter ego.
