Vision Aids: Older Adult Perspectives
The Impact Theme series: Longevity Explorers Discuss.
Together, Tech-enhanced Life and the Longevity Explorer community are researching different products that can compensate for imperfect vision in various ways. Below you can hear our discussions, and share what we are learning.
Hear what Older Adults Think: Vision Aids
Topic Hub
Vision
As we grow older, vision deteriorates. It starts with needing reading glasses (presbyopia) — which afflicts most of us over the age of fifty. And various eye conditions, like cataracts and macular degeneration, can make seeing clearly increasingly difficult as we age. Luckily, there are various tools and assistive devices that can help compensate for imperfect vision, including magnifiers, low vision apps, and a variety of more or less complex low vision devices. We are exploring them, and collecting what we learn on this Topic Hub.
About the Impact Theme Series
Our Longevity Explorers (hundreds of older adults with ages ranging from 60-95 years old) meet regularly to discuss topics at the intersection of aging and technology.
Among the many topics we discuss in these meetings, we have been exploring some specific themes which we think are going to be very important for older adults in the future, and which in our opinion are ripe for innovation. These make up our Impact Themes, and Vision Aids is one of these themes.
In these discussions:
- We share how we do things today;
- We explore and critique existing products;
- We talk about challenges we have that we wish products could solve; and
- We dream up product concepts we wish someone like you would develop.
If you are developing products or services for older adults in the category of Vision Aids, listen to the Longevity Explorer discussions on this page to get insights about how to develop better products and services for older adults.
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