Which of the following might you hear from a patient experiencing worsening presbyopia?
Refractometry
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Presbyopia describes the refractive states whereby the individual loses his or her ability to accommodate. In turn, accommodation is the ability of the crystalline lens of the eye to change shape in order to change focusing power between objects at distance and near and vice versa. Thus, presbyopic individuals experience worsening near visionstarting in their forties and progressively worsening with each decade of life.
Consequently, presbyopic individuals feel like they must hold reading material farther and farther from them as they age. Thus, many of these individuals express that they wish they had longer arms! Another common coping mechanism is these individuals will start to slide their glasses farther an farther down their noses. Moving spectacles farther away from oneself increases the effective plus power of one's glasses thus making it easier to focus on near objects.
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