Contact Lenses for Presbyopia


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Many people wear contact lenses for distance vision. With age, most people suffer from presbyopia.  This affects close vision and can affect reading, computer use, needlework etc.  As we get older and as our ability to see close-up as well reduces, we often end up wearing reading glasses over our contacts but our distance vision with glasses on is then poor. One option is to wear a different prescription contact lens in each eye. Our brain will usually compensate and give us reasonable vision from both lenses. Another option is to wear multi-focal contact lenses. The outside of the lens is focused for distance and the centre of the lens for close-up. Many people wear contact lenses for distance vision.

Bifocal Lenses

These lenses can correct both short and long sightedness by being split through the middle so that different parts of the lens are used to correct different problems.  These lenses can come in both soft and gas permeable lens types.  Often, the lower part of the lens is used for close up work and the upper part of the lens is used for distant vision. 

Monovision Lenses

These sets of lenses feature two prescriptions.  One lens corrects near vision and the other corrects distant vision and so each eye is used for a different problem.  More advanced ‘modified monovision’ contact lenses involve wearing a bifocal or multifocal contact lens in one eye and a single-vision lens in the other eye.  Thus, both eyes are used to see distant objects but only one eye is used to see nearby objects. 

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