Tag: diabetic retinopathy

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 […]

Diabetes mellitus is one of the major health problems affecting the developed regions. It affects the integrity of blood vessels and cause damages in multiple organs. But actually one of the organs that can be severely impaired by diabetes is the eye. There is even a term called diabetic eye disease to describe a group […]

The government has announced the lowering of age requirement for the Elderly Healthcare Scheme from 70 to 65, enabling more elders to benefit from the HKD 2000 per year subsidiary.