Researchers in collaboration for reducing the aging effects on the eyes

It is considered that 65% of people above the age of 50 have visual impairment, while 82% above the same age are blind. A group of researchers, in their paper entitled “The aging eye” which was published in the Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science (IOVS) focuses on needs which are unmet in clinical care. “With an aging world population and startling increases in the prevalence of diseases such as diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration, we fell that this issue is both important and timely, with chapters highlighting problems in and possible solutions to age-related diseases that affect all the major tissues of the eye”, said Gerald Chader, PhD, FARVO, chief scientific officer at the Doheny Eye Institute at the University of Southern California and medical director of the Ocular Research Symposia Foundation (ORSF). Interventions are essential to be made; otherwise, by 2015, there will be more than 10 million blind and visual impairment diagnosed Americans.