As they get older, they could mix up their medications due to poor eyesight, memory loss, drowsiness etc.
Patients with COPD are often treated with complicated regimens, 15 and poor eyesight or hearing loss may make it more difficult to adhere to treatment.
And now his eyesight is going too.
Still he notes, ruefully, that his father has no medical complaints other than arthritis, failing eyesight and slight hearing loss.
Still later my loss of eyesight from service in Vietnam confirmed war's unrelenting nasty pain that no clever storytelling or mythology can wash away.
Last week, on the military Web site Ranger Up, a veteran named Lana Duffy wrote about the injuries she sustained after an I.E.D. explosion in central Iraq, including severe loss of eyesight, balance, and memory.
In the annals of the beanball, there are crowd favorites, such as Baylor, and there are grim reminders, such a Dickie Thon, who suffered partial loss of eyesight after beanings in 1967 and 1984.
In the annals of the beanball, there are the crowd favorites, such as Baylor and the old Met Ron Hunt, and the grim reminders, such as Ray Chapman, who was killed by a sidearm fastball to the temple, in 1920, and Tony Conigliaro and Dickie Thon, who suffered partial loss of eyesight after beanings in 1967 and 1984, respectively.
Bonnet syndrome images, Dr. Sacks writes, tend to be "more stereotyped than those of dreams and at the same time less intelligible, less meaningful" — they rarely yield "insights into the unconscious wishes, needs or conflicts of the person" but are instead the brain reacting to the loss of eyesight.
The fish exhibited less looping and no differences in degree of looping between light and dark conditions, suggesting that loss of eyesight (in darkness) is not a direct cause for looping behavior in microgravity.
