RT Journal
A1 Daien V, Pérès K, Villain M, Colvez A, Delcourt C, Carrière I
T1 Visual impairment, optical correction, and their impact on activity limitations in elderly persons: The pola study
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2011
FD July 11
VO 171
IS 13
SP 1206
OP 1207
DO 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.140
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.140
AB 
The loss of autonomy among older persons is a major public health issue. In the disablement process model,1 chronic and acute conditions lead to psychological and physical deficiencies and ultimately to difficulty in performing activities of daily life. In elderly persons, visual impairment is one of the major deficiencies leading to activity limitations and can be caused by either eye trauma or ocular diseases (affecting the ability to receive or process visual information), or by refractive errors (a failure of the eye to focus images sharply on the retina). Refractive errors affect approximately a third of the US and Western European populations.2