Prevention Experts, Eye Doctors Disagree On Vision Tests For Seniors

(By – Michelle Andrew, Kaiser Health News)

Some doctors and a key group of preventive care experts are not seeing eye to eye on seniors’ need for vision screening during primary care visits.

There’s not enough evidence to know whether giving seniors a vision test when they visit their primary care doctor will lead to earlier detection and treatment of cataracts, age-related macular degeneration or refractive problems that could require corrective glasses and contacts, according to guidelines published by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Read more…

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

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