Low Vision
By: Source: AARP.org Date Posted: 2005-03-01 00:00:00-05:00
In the next fifteen years, millions of aging baby boomers face vision-stealing diseases like glaucoma, diabetes, and macular degeneration. The number of severely sight-impaired seniors is expected to nearly double, to six million. Until recently, there was little most eye doctors could do to treat these problems. But now there's hope in a new kind of treatment, called vision rehabilitation. Reporter Lonny Shavelson has this story.
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