How will my vision change with age?

How will my vision change with age?

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The eyes change throughout life. Generally children or infants are actually farsighted. As kids age and get into adolescence, that's where near sightedness appears and all of a sudden they get glasses. As you continue to age, your vision stabalizes for a long time, but then when you get into your 4s, you gradually lose your reading vision. We call that presbyopia. And that's when we'd like to say when people's arms get short. They're holding things out here and they just can't quite get it far enough to read it. In the 40s and 50s reading vision continues to decline until finally in the 60s, 70s, and 80s people start to get cataracts, which is a haziness in the natural lens of the eye. So all of these different phases of life involve vision changees, and that's why the eye doctor is really a critical part of your eye health.