Long-Term Care

Residents benefit from improved vision care

Contemporary Long-Term Care Weekly, November 15, 2007

In findings published this week in the Archives of Ophthalmology, researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham found that providing vision care to people in nursing homes leads to better quality of life and a decrease in depression.

 

The research team surveyed 142 local nursing home residents with impaired vision. One group was given corrective eyeglasses within a week, and a control group received corrective glasses two months later. The group who received glasses promptly reported less difficulty in activities such as reading, writing, playing cards, and watching television than the group who did not. They also engaged more in social interaction with others and in group activities and had fewer depressive symptoms, the study reported.

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