As you enter your patient's room,you find her sitting up in bed,reading the large print edition of Reader's Digest.She asks you if it is possible to increase the amount of lighting in the room for her while she reads.She says to you,"I don't know what it is.It just seems that I need more light for everything as I get older." In your verbal response to her,you explain what age-related changes?
A) Slower ability of the pupil to adjust to changes in lighting is age related.
B) The gray-yellow ring around her cornea,arcus senilis,interferes with visual acuity.
C) The cornea becomes flatter and thinner with aging.
D) The retina begins to degenerate with aging,and detachment is an age expected change.

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A slowed ability of the pupil to accommodate to changes in light accounts for the need of this patient to have more light in order to read.Arcus senilis does not affect vision.It is true that the cornea becomes flatter and thinner with aging,which results in astigmatism.Astigmatism does not account for the need for increased light that this patient is reporting.Although there are retinal changes that are part of the normal aging process,retinal detachment is not normal aging.The changes in the retina do not account for the need for increased light that this patient is reporting.

As You Enter Your Patient's Room,you Find Her Sitting Up