The Big Optometry Blog on cataract

There are some weeks when the impact of demographics hits home and this one has been a week in which the prevalence of cataract has also made itself felt on this editor.

Being into my 50s put me in that category of people whose kids have pretty much left home, (far from completely) but whose older relatives are beginning to need more help.

Conversations about medical conditions are a regular occurrence for most of us. This is usually accompanied by the understanding that that person is ill. Everything from a sore toe Alzheimer’s is a medical condition for which people make allowances, send flowers.