Macular degeneration

Marian
Tue, 15 Nov 2016 14:52:56 +0000

My mom had this, and it was starting to have a significant impact on her lifestyle in her early 70s. (She died unexpectedly at 75.) She had the dry kind, and it progressed slowly, but she found it necessary to limit her driving by the time she was 70 (to familiar local roads in the daytime), and she anticipated that she would soon need to give up driving completely. She was becoming increasingly isolated for this reason. I hoped that she would move to a neighborhood with good public transportation so that her vision problems would have less of an impact on her lifestyle, but that never happened.

Maybe we should all move to cities with extensive subway and bus systems as we get older? (I’m not kidding.)