Common Vision Problems In Middle Age

We need to stop thinking in terms of young and old. Our goal is not to recapture our youth. Vision changes are one of the first ways your body lets you know that you're getting older. They’re usually subtle at first, often beginning in middle age. You have to hold books and newspapers farther away to read them- Presbyopia or the inability to focus up close. Presbyopia is one of the most common vision problems in middle age. As you get older, the lens of your eye becomes less flexible. A less flexible lens can't focus clearly.

The world looks blurry -- both up close, and at a distance Astigmatism.

In astigmatism, the shape of the eye's cornea makes it hard to focus light clearly on the back of your eye, making everything look out of focus.

But there were few consensuses when youth ended, ranging from 34 in Sweden to 52 in Greece, with an average of 40.However the Love to Learn research also found that adults in their 50s were upbeat about the benefits of their age group.

God, middle age is an unending insult. The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it to old age with no chance of returning to young age!

Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure. There is a thing called knowledge of the world, which people do not have until they are middle-aged. It is something which cannot be taught to younger people, because it is not logical and does not obey laws that are constant. It has no rules

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But it is youth that must fight and die. If the old sitting in their well cushioned offices were required to fight and die, believe me there would never be a war,

OVER 60 WITH AIDS

Senior citizens are riddled with AIDS -hearing aids, Band-Aids, walking aids, government aid- THE GOLDEN older YEARS HAVE COME AT LAST.

John Craven has said that the concept of ageing has changed: "Only a generation ago, many people were pretty old at 60.These days most of us in our middle and later years are much younger in our attitudes and it's all about having an active state of mind."Old age is simply a 'state of mind' - and enjoying life to the full can keep you young. People who perceive themselves as old are more likely to quit activities which could help keep them young. The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything and the young know everything