World Glaucoma Week
It is World Glaucoma Week, Baby Boomers and keeping your mind and body active and eating the right foods are important factors in ensuring a long and healthy life for Baby Boomers.
But another factor to this equation is your eye health. Have you ever imagined what life would be like if you couldn’t see? What about if you could see, but images didn’t appear as they once did? Take a moment and really imagine it.
We are contacting you today on behalf of the All Eyes on Glaucoma Campaign to inform you that in 2010, March 7th through the 13th is World Glaucoma Week.
Throughout this week Baby Boomers everywhere, are encouraged to learn about eye health and the importance of regular, comprehensive eye exams. We would like to ensure that everyone in our life is receiving regular eye exams.
Did you know that John Patrick Shanley, Academy Award Winner for Best Screenplay for Moonstruck and playwright of Doubt, was diagnosed with advanced glaucoma twelve years ago and has experienced significant vision loss?
“Although glaucoma runs in my family, I took my sight for granted until I was faced with the harsh reality that I could go permanently blind from this condition. Fortunately, my timely diagnosis and treatment has allowed me to live my life fully and to continue doing what I love,” Shanley states.
To hear more of Shanley’s story and why he encourages everyone to receive regular eye exams, please watch this special iPSA: http://www.westglen.com/online/all_eyes_on_glaucoma.htm
A joint initiative by Pfizer, World Glaucoma Association and World Glaucoma Patient Association, the All Eyes on Glaucoma Campaign has been developed to drive public awareness of risk factors for glaucoma and the critical importance of appropriate diagnosis among at risk populations, such as Baby Boomers.
It is very important that we work together to spread the news about World Glaucoma Week, by encouraging your friends, family and colleagues to focus on their eye health this week and learn more about the risk factors. Let’s all do our part to keep our loved ones, and ourselves, seeing life to its fullest!
To learn more about World Glaucoma Week, the All Eyes on Glaucoma Campaign and who is at risk, please visit alleyesonglaucoma.com.
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