Will individuals with Alzheimer's disease benefit from cataract surgery?
Thursday, June 25, 2009 - 12:42
in Health & Medicine
A multi-institutional team of researchers, led by the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University, will begin a five-year, $2.9 million National Institutes of Health-funded study. They will examine the lives of patients with both cataracts and Alzheimer's disease (AD) to document how restored vision improves everyday life for people with dementia.