A review found that visual impairment is common in older adults with dementia and associated with negative effects. Older adults with a diagnosis of dementia more commonly have visual impairment (VI), ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A study found that more than one in four U.S. adults aged 71 years and older are visually impaired, with ...

What is Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI)? CVI refers to a brain condition, not an eye condition and results from damage to the visual systems in the brain that deal with processing and integrating ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Large retrospective studies have demonstrated that visual impairment is a risk factor for developing cognitive ...

The University of Liverpool's Professor Fiona Rowe has led the development of a major new international clinical guideline addressing visual impairment in stroke survivors. Released by the European ...

A quality improvement study found that severe visual impairment was affected by various social determinants of health, including low socioeconomic status, race, and educational level. There are 32 ...

Individuals with dual sensory impairment (DSI) and single hearing or visual impairment had a significantly higher risk of 14-year mortality than those without sensory impairment, irrespective of age, ...

If visual problems are suspected an ophthalmologist usually examines the eyes. An ophthalmologists specializes in diagnosing, and treating eyes and their diseases. An ophthalmologist, optometrist, ...

An additional 16.4 million people are projected to have vision problems due to uncorrected refractive errors. The study included data on adults aged 40 years and older, taken from 6 major ...

Individuals age 49 and older with cataract and those age 49 to 74 years with age-related macular degeneration appear to have higher mortality rates over an 11-year period than those without such ...