Question

An aging client is brought to the eye clinic by the son. The son states he has seen his parent holding reading materials at an increasing distance to focus properly. What age-related changes does this indicate?

Answer 1

Ciliary muscles in the eye cannot stretch properly due to inelastic fibers.

Step-by-step explanation:

The eye does has a mechanism called 'accommodation' in order for it to focus on objects from distant to near. The ciliary muscles in the eye are responsible to contract or expand to open the iris more or less in order to focus on the object. As we get older, these muscles tend to slacken even more and cannot stretch back and forth as elastically as before therefore this will be portayed on an elder person as holding materials further away to be ableto focus.