Sara Cox

When I turned 40, I noticed I couldn't read the label on the back of a jar of food - it turned to be the result of presbyopia where the lens of the eye loses its ability to focus on near objects due to age. So now I wear multifocal contact lenses - and they've been a real blessing.

English Entertainer

Presbyopia is linked with aging, so it's used in contexts discussing vision changes as people get older.

Age-related

Unlike diseases, presbyopia is a normal part of aging. It isn’t caused by external factors.

Not Disease

Presbyopia specifically affects the ability to see close-up objects clearly, not distance vision.

Vision Focus

 I am of course talking about our keys. Just kidding. What I actually want to talk about is one of our most important vision. Every single day we each lose a little bit of our ability to refocus our eyes until we can't refocus at all. We call this condition presbyopia,

Autofocusing reading...

 something called accommodation. This keeps objects in focus when we shift our gaze from far to near. But as we get older, the lens becomes less flexible, and can't change shape when we want to look at near objects. This is called presbyopia,