The majority of its clients are older people whose problems arise from physical dif ficulties with mobility, eyesight, hearing and continence.
The latter informant had restricted eyesight and was on the verge of moving to a private residential home at the time of interview.
His health had deteriorated and his eyesight, sadly, was failing, but he was able to retain many of his interests until his brief final illness.
With the help of binoculars, bird watchers may see and identify birds beyond the range of normal human eyesight.
But altruistic behavior as such, according to biological theory, would depend (as eyesight depends) much more on genes than on experience.
If only, he complains, acoustics could do for the hearing what optics can to improve eyesight.
More than half the sample experienced arthritis or rheumatism, poor eyesight, problems with feet or walking, dental problems, headaches and breathlessness after effort.
He had been a keen vocalist, and was a flautist till his eyesight failed him.
