Course Summary
With the presbyopic population increasing yet also maintaining a more varied and active lifestyle, eyecare solutions for presbyopic patients need to keep apace. Our ‘Presbyopia and its Management with Contact Lenses’ course will help you meet these patient needs.
It is estimated that the population of over 50 year-olds will increase to 24.5 million – an increase of 24% in fifteen years and providing excellent eyecare to these individuals is going to be a key role of all Eye Care Professionals. With the benefits of improved healthcare and healthy living, the lifestyle of current and future presbyopes is much more active and as pensionable age increases their working lives will also be extended. Eyecare will play an even greater role and this course will deliver hands-on training to help develop your skills to improve your patients’ satisfaction.
This innovative one-day course will
- lead you through a series of peer-to-peer discussions sharing best practice with fellow Eye Care Professionals and tutors that have had success managing presbyopia with contact lenses
- present current theories about presbyopia and options for correction
- using innovative workshops provide you with skills to communicate presbyopia effectively – even if you haven’t experienced it yourself
- provide hands-on workshops that will show you what the relative merits of different forms of contact lens correction are
- help you adopt a successful problem solving approach based on patient feedback
- provide you with knowledge and skills to fit ACUVUE® OASYS® for Presbyopia
- help you gain necessary skills to deliver patient satisfaction to this increasingly important patient group
This hands-on one day course takes place at the state-of-art facilities of THE VISION CARE INSTITUTE® using inter-room HD video technology, interactive electronic voting, HD video slit lamps and many innovative teaching materials.
Four CET credits are available and the course is FREE to attend.
Learning Objectives
- Learn about the demographics of presbyopia and how it is changing in the UK
- Understand the current theories about accommodation and how it changes with age
- Gain knowledge about how ageing not only causes presbyopia but how it is compounded by other changes in visual function
- Learn what patients experiencing presbyopia feel about the condition, their expectations and how to communicate effectively with them
- Understand how different forms of correction affect visual performance generally and not just visual acuity
- Learn how to fit presbyopic contact lenses successfully to deliver patient satisfaction
What Previous Delegates Have Said About this Course
“Liked being walked through the fitting process with all pros/cons and pitfalls highlighted.” 29th June 2011
“Well presented, good discussion (able to voice opinions and ask questions easily). Smaller group made this easier. Good to have hands on workshops.” 29th June 2011
