The Ageing Eye

The eye and its supporting structures undergo well known changes with age. As the population continues to age, it is important to distinguish ‘normal’ involutional changes from aging pathology of these structures. This chapter describes the standard age changes, as well as diseases that occur in the eye and its adnexae with age. These include cataracts, age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma and giant cell (or temporal) arteritis.