A study found that more than one in four U.S. adults aged 71 years and older are visually impaired, with increasing prevalence related to older age, less education, lower income, non-white race and ...

A review found that visual impairment is common in older adults with dementia and associated with negative effects. Older adults with a diagnosis of dementia more commonly have visual impairment (VI), ...

The University of Liverpool's Professor Fiona Rowe has led the development of a major new international clinical guideline addressing visual impairment in stroke survivors. Released by the European ...

What is Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI)? CVI refers to a brain condition, not an eye condition and results from damage to the visual systems in the brain that deal with processing and integrating ...

Visual impairment (VI), hearing impairment (HI), and dual sensory impairment (DSI) were associated with a significantly higher risk of incident dementia. An analysis of 113,511 participants without ...

An additional 16.4 million people are projected to have vision problems due to uncorrected refractive errors. The study included data on adults aged 40 years and older, taken from 6 major ...

A cross-sectional study found that areas with a high number of eye care clinicians had a lower prevalence of vision impairment. Geographic distribution of eye care clinicians was associated with ...

Race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status are closely associated with visual impairment in adolescents in the United States, researchers have found. The study showed that adolescents who identified as ...

A recent study highlights the range of uncomfortable situations people living with blindness or visual impairment encounter due to interpersonal communication challenges, and outlines strategies ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Dual sensory impairment was associated with elevated CVD risk among middle-aged and elderly Chinese adults.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — David Schwarte, an assistive technology specialist on the Innovative Learning Team at Purdue University, knows what it is like to learn in a classroom when challenged with a ...

Unlike other vision impairments, CVI stems from an injury to the visual centers of the brain that affects how it communicates with the eyes. People with CVI usually have healthy eyes but have trouble ...