Faculty Bibliography

Information on the geriatric patient is needed in the curricula of all health professional programs. During the 1988 Academy Meeting a Symposium on the Graying of America: Optometric Considerations, was held. The following paper will: (1) summarize a recent survey of geriatric education in the United States schools and colleges of optometry, (2) describe two continuing education projects on gerontology conducted for practicing optometrists, and (3) discuss two recently completed projects involving the training of optometric faculty

Normal and abnormal effects of aging impact greatly on individuals and their families. Health care providers must therefore be knowledgeable about how to care for elderly persons. In order to interact among elderly persons and within the aging network, optometrists need to have a broad understanding of gerontology

During the 1987 Academy Meeting, a joint Optometric Education/Public Health and Occupational Optometry Symposium was held on The Delivery of Optometric Care in Nontraditional Settings. Papers were presented on prison systems, long-term care facilities, schools for the mental/physically handicapped, home eye care services, migrant work program, and juvenile detention facilities. This paper is an overview of care delivered in nontraditional settings, including important health care and demographic considerations, brief summation of the nontraditional populations presented, the impact on optometric education, and implications for optometric manpower needs

Lateral to medial dissection in the 'potential space' between the orbicularis oculi muscle and the septum orbitale simplifies the skin-muscle flap lower lid blepharoplasty. The procedure is safe, rapid, and atraumatic