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Sunglasses are very popular by variety of ages, even the best fashion brands have their own sunglasses colletions… Why prescription sunglasses?
Sunglasses work mainly as protective items and only secondly as decorations. There are however people who cannot buy a pair of sunglasses and enjoy them because they have special eye conditions. Hyperopia, myopia and astigmatism are just a few examples here. The solution for such cases is to be found in prescription sunglasses designed to match exactly the same features of the regular glasses but with ultraviolet protection. On the one hand the UVA rays get absorbed in the body through the eye lens, and on the other, the UVB rays cause skin burn.

Prescription sunglasses represent a combination of regular glasses with a dark lens design. Prescription sunglasses use different types of lenses, and here we can count polarized lenses, anti-reflective lenses, blue blockers, photochromic lenses and gradient lenses. It is important to mention here, before going on with the description of prescription sunglasses, that you can only order this kind of eyewear based on an ophthalmologist’s recommendation and after careful medical examination. Some health condition such as eye surgery may require total prevention of sun exposure. This is why most often doctors prescribe sunglasses with  99 or 100% protection against UVA and UVB.

Some prescription sunglasses rely on a wraparound design that prevents the UV rays from entering from the sides. The frame makes such protection possible, because a too thin or small frame design will be insufficient. As for the anti-reflective properties, all quality sunglasses should incorporated the polarized coating for a superior protection of the eyes. Mirror-coated lenses are sometimes used for the same purpose of reducing glare. The stage of the eye condition will also have an influence on the design of the prescription sunglasses.

It is sometimes difficult to create functional prescription sunglasses for advanced forms of myopia where the thickness of the lenses is very high. The presence of two or more health problems at the same time could also become an obstacle for the design of prescription sunglasses. The doctor should be able to recommend an adequate course of action, with the mention that the design of highly specialized prescription sunglasses is more difficult. Moreover, price awareness is another important element given the fact that prescription sunglasses will always be more expensive, as the number of specialists who can design them is smaller too.

Kaiser Permanente has recently release some interesting data that shows how senior citizens are embracing the Internet as a method of managing their health care. Officials at the Kaiser Permanente California research facility in Oakland recently published a press release announcing how overwhelmingly satisfied Medicare beneficiaries are with their experience using the Internet to manage their care in many different ways. Kaiser’s personal health record system, My Health Manager, allows patients from Kaiser Permanente Colorado to Kaiser Hawaii to do everything from refilling prescriptions to contacting their physicians to learning more about their conditions.

In an age where youth seems to dominate, it is interesting to see how comfortable this older age group is with the computer technology required to use an online personal health record management system. Kaiser Permanente conducted an email survey to obtain these results, which there were 4,560 responses to. Respondents from Kaiser Permanente California, Kaiser Permanente Colorado and the seven other regions in the Kaiser network responded to questions regarding their comfort in using computers, Internet use habits, and current health status including chronic conditions and prescriptions. Some might say the results were surprising, since more than 87 percent of respondents were satisfied or very satisfied with My Health Manager. All of this suggests that senior citizens are more computer-literate than most people give them credit for.

The biggest contributors to overall satisfaction with My Health Manager, according to the survey results, were the online appointment requests, the ability to email doctors and review test results online, and the prescription refill feature (this last one was a respondent favorite). Most of the people who responded to the survey (70 percent) also reported that they were in good or better health, and those who said they were in excellent health were also those who appeared to be the most actively engaged with managing their health care.

Kaiser Permanente officials have also drawn some conclusions from these survey results. Jan Oldenburg, senior practice leader of the Internet Services Group Health Portfolio for Kaiser Permanente, said the high satisfaction rate shows how a personal health record system that is thoughtfully designed can be convenient and easy for people from every demographic to use and enjoy. So, some might say that if an online health management system is designed intuitively enough, pretty much anyone can use it.

What was possibly the most surprising fact about these survey results, however, was the level of comfort that these Medicare beneficiaries have with computers. Survey respondents from Kaiser Permanente Colorado to Kaiser Permanente California said they were using the Internet every day and reviewing their medical record online a few times each month. This makes sense, though, because people become less mobile as they age. So a personal health record system such as My Health Manager might be the best way for a senior citizen to proactively manage their health care without leaving the house.

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