Are you wearing the correct eyeglass prescription?
There comes a time when you start to notice your vision isn't as sharp as it used to be. Maybe you have to hold books and newspapers farther away from your eyes—the result of a change in your focusing ability, called presbyopia. Or, the world might look more blurred and faded than it once did, possibly because of an eye disease like cataracts or macular degeneration.
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