North America is estimated to hold the largest market share in the global visual impairment market in 2020.

To obtain the first representative and valid population-based prevalence figures on visual impairment and blindness in adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) and to identify risk groups ...

Visual impairment (VI) is estimated to affect around 1 in 11 US adults aged 65 and older and is associated with an increased risk of falls, social isolation, loss of independence, disability, and ...

Visual impairment is an important independent predictor of the risk of hip fracture in elderly mobile patients. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Epidemiological studies reveal that ...

The Visual Function questionnaire provides a more valid statistical model of visual disability in cataract patients than the Quality of Life questionnaire, according to a study. "The [Quality of ...

Could children who are different from their parents—like children born to parents with disabilities—grow up to be more empathic? Researchers at Israel’s Bar Ilan University recently studied families ...

The night before my third eye surgery/procedure/treatment — the terminology is slippery — I methodically change the light bulbs in my apartment to red ones. When I’m done, my rooms have been ...

A visual disability cannot be corrected with contacts, glasses or surgery. For me, my visual disability is caused by genetics, which cannot be fixed.