Tag: Age-related macular degeneration

Falling is a serious health-related issue for elderly. According to statistics, one-third of the elderly living in the community would fall at least once a year. The seniors may not only lose mobility and cause depression, the study showed that elderly had hip fracture after falling could lead to a higher death rate in the […]

Aging is a problem that affects all parts of your body and of course your eyes too. At the moment when you are eligible to get your pension, you have been using your eyes for decades and problems may start arising no matter how good your eyesight was used to be. There are various changes […]

Age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) is a rather common eye disease. In 2012, World Health Organisation has published a report which pointed out that ARMD was the third cause of blindness in the world.1 In 2010, the Hong Kong Hospital Authority has found that there were about 3,000 new ARMD cases per year and estimated that […]