This is a condition you might get as you get older where you struggle to see things close up and you might have to hold things further away from you just to see them clearly.

This happens because as you get older the muscles in the eye become less elastic and lose power.

This means the lens is unable to focus in the way that it should.

You can fix this problem with glasses.

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