Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A study found that more than one in four U.S. adults aged 71 years and older are visually impaired, with ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older men and women with cataracts or age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) are at increased risk for suffering an early death, relative to older people without these two ...

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 ...

Older adults with a diagnosis of dementia more commonly have visual impairment (VI), which is associated with negative effects in both the older adult and their caregivers, according to a review ...

A Penn State alumna turned faculty member is working to help improve communication solutions for children with a brain-based visual impairment. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news ...

Kaitlin Vogel is a health journalist based in New York. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications, including Healthline, Eating Well, Parade, and more. Nick Blackmer is a librarian, ...

"Owing to its profound negative impact on individuals, visual impairment needs to be addressed timely and appropriately…While there are effective assistive devices that can ameliorate some of the ...

A room used for sleep and audio studies at the Unit for Visually Impaired People. On a hill overlooking a small airport whose runway stretches into the Ligurian Sea sits the Unit for Visually Impaired ...

Down one of the cobblestone streets in Lviv in western Ukraine, shaded by thick green trees, a somewhat anonymous building is in fact hosting a legacy within its walls: the oldest institution in ...