Karen was right when she said that the leading causes of vision impairment and blindness in the United States are primarily age-related eye diseases. And as if to add salt to injury, the number of Americans at risk for age-related eye diseases is increasing as the baby-boomer generation ages.

There are many signs that signal deteriorating vision, e.g. even with your glasses or contact lens, do you have:

• difficulty recognizing faces of friends and relatives?
• difficulty doing things that require you to see well up-close, such as reading, cooking, sewing, fixing things around the house, or picking out and matching the color of your clothes?
• difficulty doing things at work or home because lights seem dimmer than they used to?
• difficulty reading street and bus signs or the names of stores?

Read about blindness and vision impairment at The Eye Digest — ouh yes, there are differences between the two! :)