The Glenn A. Fry Award Lecture 2003: Vision in elders - Summary of findings of the SKI study

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 87-93

  Haegerstrom Portnoy, Gunilla ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SMITH KETTLEWELL EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Attentional visual fields; Contrast sensitivity; Face recognition; Glare sensitivity; Low contrast vision; Visual acuity

Indexed keywords

COLOR VISION; FACE RECOGNITION; FLICKERING; GLARE EFFECTS; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; PATIENT MONITORING;

LOW CONTRAST VISION MEASURES; OLDER POPULATION; STERIOPSIS; TEMPORAL SENSITIVITY; VISUAL ACUITY;

OPHTHALMOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; COLOR VISION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GLARE SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RECOGNITION; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 13844271475     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.OPX.0000153162.05903.4C     Document Type: Conference Paper

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