http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/ en-us Thu, 01 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:50:07 GMT Silverchair editor@archinte.jamanetwork.com webmaster@archinte.jamanetwork.com http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=1105817 Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT Daien V, Pérès K, Villain M, et al. <span class="paragraphSection">The loss of autonomy among older persons is a major public health issue. In the disablement process model, 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.</span> 171 13 1206 1207 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.140 http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=1105817