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Finding routes towards understanding and the successful correction of presbyopia
Contact Lens & Anterior Eye 39 (2016) 401
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Editorial
Finding routes towards understanding and the successful correction of presbyopia
Presbyopia was estimated to affect around 1.3 billion people worldwide in 2011 [1] and with an ageing population is no doubt likely to increase in the future. The term first appeared in ancient Greece when the term  (old) and (eye) was used to suggest that a person had ‘eyes like an old man’. Ancient Romans were aware that presbyopia affects visual performance and quality of life, but the only way they coped with it was to buy literate young slaves to read and write for them [2]. Over a thousand years later spectacles set presbyopes free to read independently. Recent years have seen plenty of new devices and techniques that have been launched and proposed in the field of contact lenses and surgery [3–5] but an effective and widespread non-spectacle option to correct presbyopic people is still a chimera often termed ‘the Holy Grail’ for eye care practitioners [6]. Moreover, the spectacle option is not available to large parts of the global population and spectacle availability can be as low at 6% in some less developed countries [7]. Presbyopia involves physiological, psychological, sociological issues that researchers, clinicians and companies are currently engaged to better understanding and to manage with. This is the situation that led a group of people and associations to launch an international meeting around the theme of presbyopia that we are really excited to announce in this editorial ‘the Global Presbyopia Symposium’ (GPS). The first GPS will be organised and hosted by Istituto Benigno Zaccagnini (IBZ) in Bologna, Italy in conjunction of the 20th anniversary of its interdisciplinary conference in Bologna 4–6th February 2017. The conference will focus on the current state of research and evidence based clinical approaches in the field of presbyopia and will be divided into three main areas; theories of presbyopia and epidemiology; correction of presbyopia with spectacles and contact lenses; and surgical treatments of presbyopia. A poster session will be arranged in parallel to the lecture presentations. The languages of the conference will be English and Italian and simultaneous translation will be available throughout the conference. We have the pleasure to confirm the lectio magistralis of the
Keynote speakers Emeritus Professor Neil Charman, University of Manchester and Visiting Professor Sunil Shah, University of Ulster and Aston University. Any oral or poster presentation will be considered for inclusion in the programme on any topic related to presbyopia. The submission deadline is 6th January 2017. Scientific abstracts can be sent to organising committee of the Istituto Benigno Zaccagnini (IBZ) [email protected]. Guidelines for the abstract submission can be found at: http:// www.istitutozaccagnini.it/en/category/congresso/. We hope that this will become a regular periodic event held at different global venues and the GPS will be a platform for interested clinicians and researchers to share information and finding routes towards understanding and successful correction of Presbyopia. References [1] K.D. Frick, S.M. Joy, D.A. Wilson, K.S. Naidoo, B.A. Holden, The global burden of potential productivity loss from uncorrected presbyopia, Ophthalmology 122 (2015) 1706–1710. [2] W. Gasson, Roman ophthalmic science (743 B.C.–A.D. 476), Ophthalmic Physiol. Opt. 6 (1986) 255–267. [3] W.N. Charman, Developments in the correction of presbyopia I: spectacle and contact lenses, Ophthalmic Physiol. Opt. 34 (2014) 8–29. [4] W.N. Charman, Developments in the correction of presbyopia II: surgical approaches, Ophthalmic Physiol. Opt. 34 (2014) 397–426. [5] R. Gil Cazorla, S.A. Naroo, S. Shah, A review of the surgical options for the correction of presbyopia, Br. J. Ophthalmol. 100 (1) (2016) 62–70. [6] S.A. Naroo, Editorial, Contact Lens Anterior Eye 33 (3) (2010) 103. [7] A.D. Goertz, W.C. Stewart, W.R. Burns, J.A. Stewart, L.A. Nelson, Review of the impact of presbyopia on quality of life in the developing and developed world, Acta Ophthalmol. 92 (2014) 497–500.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clae.2016.11.001 1367-0484/© 2016 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of British Contact Lens Association.
Fabrizio Zeri Shehzad Naroo On Behalf of the Scientific Committee for the Global Presbyopia Symposium
Contents lists available at ScienceDirect
Contact Lens & Anterior Eye journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/clae
Editorial
Finding routes towards understanding and the successful correction of presbyopia
Presbyopia was estimated to affect around 1.3 billion people worldwide in 2011 [1] and with an ageing population is no doubt likely to increase in the future. The term first appeared in ancient Greece when the term  (old) and (eye) was used to suggest that a person had ‘eyes like an old man’. Ancient Romans were aware that presbyopia affects visual performance and quality of life, but the only way they coped with it was to buy literate young slaves to read and write for them [2]. Over a thousand years later spectacles set presbyopes free to read independently. Recent years have seen plenty of new devices and techniques that have been launched and proposed in the field of contact lenses and surgery [3–5] but an effective and widespread non-spectacle option to correct presbyopic people is still a chimera often termed ‘the Holy Grail’ for eye care practitioners [6]. Moreover, the spectacle option is not available to large parts of the global population and spectacle availability can be as low at 6% in some less developed countries [7]. Presbyopia involves physiological, psychological, sociological issues that researchers, clinicians and companies are currently engaged to better understanding and to manage with. This is the situation that led a group of people and associations to launch an international meeting around the theme of presbyopia that we are really excited to announce in this editorial ‘the Global Presbyopia Symposium’ (GPS). The first GPS will be organised and hosted by Istituto Benigno Zaccagnini (IBZ) in Bologna, Italy in conjunction of the 20th anniversary of its interdisciplinary conference in Bologna 4–6th February 2017. The conference will focus on the current state of research and evidence based clinical approaches in the field of presbyopia and will be divided into three main areas; theories of presbyopia and epidemiology; correction of presbyopia with spectacles and contact lenses; and surgical treatments of presbyopia. A poster session will be arranged in parallel to the lecture presentations. The languages of the conference will be English and Italian and simultaneous translation will be available throughout the conference. We have the pleasure to confirm the lectio magistralis of the
Keynote speakers Emeritus Professor Neil Charman, University of Manchester and Visiting Professor Sunil Shah, University of Ulster and Aston University. Any oral or poster presentation will be considered for inclusion in the programme on any topic related to presbyopia. The submission deadline is 6th January 2017. Scientific abstracts can be sent to organising committee of the Istituto Benigno Zaccagnini (IBZ) [email protected]. Guidelines for the abstract submission can be found at: http:// www.istitutozaccagnini.it/en/category/congresso/. We hope that this will become a regular periodic event held at different global venues and the GPS will be a platform for interested clinicians and researchers to share information and finding routes towards understanding and successful correction of Presbyopia. References [1] K.D. Frick, S.M. Joy, D.A. Wilson, K.S. Naidoo, B.A. Holden, The global burden of potential productivity loss from uncorrected presbyopia, Ophthalmology 122 (2015) 1706–1710. [2] W. Gasson, Roman ophthalmic science (743 B.C.–A.D. 476), Ophthalmic Physiol. Opt. 6 (1986) 255–267. [3] W.N. Charman, Developments in the correction of presbyopia I: spectacle and contact lenses, Ophthalmic Physiol. Opt. 34 (2014) 8–29. [4] W.N. Charman, Developments in the correction of presbyopia II: surgical approaches, Ophthalmic Physiol. Opt. 34 (2014) 397–426. [5] R. Gil Cazorla, S.A. Naroo, S. Shah, A review of the surgical options for the correction of presbyopia, Br. J. Ophthalmol. 100 (1) (2016) 62–70. [6] S.A. Naroo, Editorial, Contact Lens Anterior Eye 33 (3) (2010) 103. [7] A.D. Goertz, W.C. Stewart, W.R. Burns, J.A. Stewart, L.A. Nelson, Review of the impact of presbyopia on quality of life in the developing and developed world, Acta Ophthalmol. 92 (2014) 497–500.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clae.2016.11.001 1367-0484/© 2016 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of British Contact Lens Association.
Fabrizio Zeri Shehzad Naroo On Behalf of the Scientific Committee for the Global Presbyopia Symposium