The honest answer is: more often than most aging parents are currently going. Vision changes gradually, and most people adapt to those changes without realising they have. Your parent may not notice that their sight has declined because they have been unconsciously adjusting for months. The eye exam is the moment someone qualified actually looks

The difficult thing about macular degeneration is that the early signs are easy to explain away. Your parent squints at faces. They hold the newspaper closer to the lamp. They stop mentioning it because they have quietly decided it is just age. It may well be. But it may also be the start of something

When a parent is booked in for cataract surgery, most families assume the hard part is the decision to have the operation. Then the surgeon mentions lens options, and a whole new set of questions opens up. Both standard and premium intraocular lenses replace the eye’s clouded natural lens during surgery. The difference is in

The tricky thing about cataracts is that they develop so gradually that neither you nor your parent may notice how much vision has quietly slipped away. Your parent probably will not announce that their vision has changed. What you are more likely to notice is that they have stopped driving at night, that they have

Most families never ask this question until they are sitting in a waiting room and realise they are not quite sure where they are or why. All three are eye care professionals. All three work with glasses, vision, and the health of the eye. But they are not interchangeable, and for an aging parent, getting