As the old saying goes, if there is an old person in the family, there is a treasure. The elderly have worked hard for their families all their lives and are willing to release all their heat to warm their families, but are we as the offspring concerned about the quality of life of the elderly?
If you find that the elderly have the following phenomena: the home is getting dirty; cooking more and more difficult to eat; easily kicked to the ground debris; expression mute but no other diseases; than before do not like to go out to play; …… Maybe you think it is just age, but in fact, because of the decline of vision.
In the morning, it was the specialist clinic of Director Shao Dongping.
An aunt in her 60s was waiting for her appointment, and while I was measuring other people’s vision, she came up to me and said, “Nurse girl, I hear your voice, you were the one who examined me last time, I couldn’t see clearly then, I only remember your voice, I can see your face clearly now, huh!”
In ophthalmology, it is common to see again, and we often encounter such happy scenes of “being seen”.
When this aunt was first seen, her vision was the same with glasses and bare eyes (glasses were not effective), the frames of her glasses were deformed, the lenses were scratched, she was dizzy and easily fatigued when wearing glasses, she could not see at all when cooking, and she relied on her memory to fetch salt and raw flour. She told me that this condition had been going on for years. She was usually busy with her grandchildren and thought that all elderly people were like this, and she was referred to our hospital by a post-cataract surgery patient of the Disabled Persons’ Federation. She was diagnosed with high myopia + cataract and was admitted to the hospital for cataract surgery in one eye. At today’s follow-up, auntie told me cheerfully: “The world is completely different after the surgery. When I returned home on the day of discharge, my eyes could see clearly and I realized that the kitchen, living room and bathroom where I usually work are all dirty, and the original neighbor’s daughter-in-law looks like this …… “When I gave her a pre-operative checkup, she raised her hand in a “victory” gesture and asked me to do more health education so that those elderly people who cannot see and do not know how to seek medical help can see again.
After the surgery, she did not need to wear glasses and her vision was 0.6 and 0.8 in both eyes. Now her eyes are clearer and more comfortable, and she looks fresh and clean.
Focus on vision, focus on the quality of life of the elderly!