Low vision: tennis anyone?

The new NICE guideline emphasises that the majority of patients with symptomatic cataract will benefit from surgery, and importantly, delaying surgery until any chosen acuity threshold is reached is not cost effective. This applies to each eye considered for any individual patient. But what options are there when a patient is clear about wanting to delay surgery for the time being?

Case Study

Eighty-three-year-old AA had a very specific visual demand when I attended for a domiciliary eye test recently. She wanted two specific things; to be able to read the scores on her television during Wimbledon, and to have better glare protection than currently afforded by her photochromic varifocals.