Adjusting to glare and darkness can become more difficult.
Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2025 10:18 am
Your vision changes naturally throughout your life, you may be feeling these changes right now as almost everyone experience them while aging!!
Let me give you some hints about what you may be going through…
You may have noticed that:
Your eyes need more light to see.
It becomes harder to tell the difference between some colors, particularly shades of blue and green.
It becomes more difficult to focus on things that are near.
Or you may be experiencing some of these symptoms:
Cloudy or blurry vision, Headlights, lamps, or sunlight may appear too bright!!
Poor night vision or even Double vision
Or you may experience frequent prescription changes in your eyeglasses or contact lenses, usually these changes won't interfere with your regular daily activities.
The risk for these age related changes increases if you have:
Certain diseases such as diabetes.
You are a smoker or if you drink alcohol.
The environment changes may have a profound c level executive list effect such as prolonged exposure to sunlight.
The important thing now is: Can these changes be prevented?
These changes can be slowed down but no effective 100% prevention technique is available, but as you know prevention is the best cure.
It's important to get your eyes tested regularly by an ophthalmologist at least once every two years, and more often if you notice any changes in your vision. Furthermore some eye diseases that come or may increase in severity with aging such as: cataract, macular degeneration, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, ..
Some useful tips to protect your eyes:
If you wear glasses:
When buying glasses, make sure that they fit correctly and that they have the correct lenses.
Keep your glasses clean and protected. Scratched lenses increase sight problems and can reduce clear vision.
Don't rely on ready-made reading glasses - they should only be used as a short-term solution, as it is rare for both eyes to need exactly the same amount of magnification this won't harm your eyes but it can sometimes cause eye strain or headaches.
General tips:
Good overall lighting is essential. Keep the windows clean, and pull curtains back as far as possible. For reading or close work, make sure that you have direct light from a flexible table lamp, positioned in front of you.
If you have serious sight loss, use some of the practical aids available that can help you to see better as: Special magnifiers that can even be built in to your glasses. Reading frames can also help in reducing glare and concentrating your vision on the area of print being read.
You can also use large print books or even talking books if they are available in your country.
Aging gracefully is a gift that we all can have once we put our selves first…always keep this in your mind.
Let me give you some hints about what you may be going through…
You may have noticed that:
Your eyes need more light to see.
It becomes harder to tell the difference between some colors, particularly shades of blue and green.
It becomes more difficult to focus on things that are near.
Or you may be experiencing some of these symptoms:
Cloudy or blurry vision, Headlights, lamps, or sunlight may appear too bright!!
Poor night vision or even Double vision
Or you may experience frequent prescription changes in your eyeglasses or contact lenses, usually these changes won't interfere with your regular daily activities.
The risk for these age related changes increases if you have:
Certain diseases such as diabetes.
You are a smoker or if you drink alcohol.
The environment changes may have a profound c level executive list effect such as prolonged exposure to sunlight.
The important thing now is: Can these changes be prevented?
These changes can be slowed down but no effective 100% prevention technique is available, but as you know prevention is the best cure.
It's important to get your eyes tested regularly by an ophthalmologist at least once every two years, and more often if you notice any changes in your vision. Furthermore some eye diseases that come or may increase in severity with aging such as: cataract, macular degeneration, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, ..
Some useful tips to protect your eyes:
If you wear glasses:
When buying glasses, make sure that they fit correctly and that they have the correct lenses.
Keep your glasses clean and protected. Scratched lenses increase sight problems and can reduce clear vision.
Don't rely on ready-made reading glasses - they should only be used as a short-term solution, as it is rare for both eyes to need exactly the same amount of magnification this won't harm your eyes but it can sometimes cause eye strain or headaches.
General tips:
Good overall lighting is essential. Keep the windows clean, and pull curtains back as far as possible. For reading or close work, make sure that you have direct light from a flexible table lamp, positioned in front of you.
If you have serious sight loss, use some of the practical aids available that can help you to see better as: Special magnifiers that can even be built in to your glasses. Reading frames can also help in reducing glare and concentrating your vision on the area of print being read.
You can also use large print books or even talking books if they are available in your country.
Aging gracefully is a gift that we all can have once we put our selves first…always keep this in your mind.