4126.0 Vision Health and Aging

Tuesday, November 9, 2010: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Oral
Vision impairment is a serious public health concern among older adults that affects millions of people worldwide. Vision impairment is associated with higher prevalences of falls and injuries, depression, and social isolation. Therefore, eye health promotion and vision loss prevention is an important component of healthy aging. Healthy People 2010 calls for improving the vision health of the U.S. population through prevention, early detection, treatment, and rehabilitation.
Session Objectives: 1. Demonstrate the importance of eye health promotion and vision loss prevention in achieving healthy aging. 2. Assess the current status of vision health among older adults nationally and internationally. 3. Identify modifiable barriers in accessing eye care services among older adults.
Moderator:
John Whitener, OD, MPH

10:30am
Understanding the perceived barriers and benefits to accessing treatment for presbyopia in an indigenous Filipino community
Thomas Wubben, BS, Gregory Wolfe, OD, MPH, Christopher Guerrero, MD, Gerald Giovannelli, BS, MBA and David Ramsey, MD, PhD, MPH
  
Welcoming Remarks
10:51am
Cataract surgery and eye care services utilization among African-Americans: A comparison with Whites
Yan Li, MD, MPH, Xinzhi Zhang, MD, PhD, Laurie Elam-Evans and Lina S. Balluz, ScD, MPH
  
11:09am
Use of dilated eye examination among U.S. adults
Asel Ryskulova, MD, PhD, MPH, Richard Klein, MPH, Mary Frances Cotch, PhD and Rosemary Janiszewski, MS, CHES
  
11:27am
Prevalence of glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy by self- report and after examination in an urban low-income uninsured adult population
Janis Winters, OD
     
Discussion

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Vision Care Section
Endorsed by: Gerontological Health (newly approved name Aging & Public Health), Women's Caucus

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

See more of: Vision Care Section
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