by Dr. Paul Karpecki | Mar 14, 2022 | Feature Spotlight, Practice Pearls, Relating to Your Patients
With a new FDA-approved treatment, it’s a good time to address this increasing population Presbyopia is on the rise. This age-related condition that affects nearly 85% of people aged 40 years or older is so common and so underserved that every eye care practitioner...
by Katie Moyer | Aug 2, 2019 | Patient Engagement
How to educate and treat today’s over-40 population Presbyopi-huh? Nearly all optometrists who responded to a recent poll—92 percent—agreed that most patients have no idea what the word “presbyopia” means. The poll of 143 ODs, conducted by Optometry Times and eye...
by Smitha Gopal | Mar 31, 2017 | Practice Pearls
What makes a conversation memorable? That was the question posed to third-year optometry students in the first annual Memorable Conversations Scholarship. Research has shown that patients immediately forget up to 80% of information learned during a medical...
