Echoes of the Past: Why patients go to the optician

Echoes of the Past: Drivers' vision then and nowNew research published this week by road safety charity Brake in conjunction with Specsavers and Royal Sun Alliance has found that 19 per cent of people put off visiting their optician when they noticed a problem with their vision.

This week’s Echoes of the past retrospective from the August 28 issue from 1964 shows that unwillingness to visit an optician is a long-standing problem. An ophthalmic optician’s analysis of 1,000 consecutive patients found that 557 people were motivated to visit the optician by being unable to see clearly or comfortably.