Gerontology & Geriatric Research

Abstract

Glaucoma: A Principal Reason of Blindness in Senior People

Kashetti S

Ageing is the process of losing physical and mental balance of an individual. The age plays an important factor
in many aspects especially susceptibility toward many diseases. Most of the early adult’s faces eye and ear related
problems along with increasing age. In this article an author is trying to focus on eye related problems. The medical
conditions such as deceased vision, blockage of inner eye vessels, and inflammation in the eye, eye surgery, and
autoimmune disease of eyes are responsible for causing the severe blindness disease like glaucoma. The high risk
factors such as poor vision, intraocular pressure, diabetes, thinner corneas, high blood pressure and eye pressure, sickle
cell anemia, farsight and nearsight, family history of glaucoma are involved as glaucoma causing agents in many cases.
As per the current research, there is no any effective treatment for glaucoma across the world. So the finding of effective
treatment against the glaucoma becomes challenge to the researchers throughout the globe.

Published Date: 2020-10-30; Received Date: 2020-10-12