Will my eyes eventually get worse with age?

Well, what doesn’t get worse with age in our bodies? We humans are not really designed to live much past 40 -by then we have passed on our DNA and met our children (and at one time, grandchildren) rearing obligations.

Fortunately, though, medical science allows us to survive far longer than that -at least since the 20th century in the developed parts of the world.

The most common age-related change in our vision is presbyopia -the loss of near vision from the hardening of the natural lens. This hardening presages discoloration of the natural lens that, when it gets “bad enough” is called a cataract.

Until that happens, though, focus at distance does not change all that much past one’s teen years.