Somewhere in your forties, small print starts drifting a little further away, and menus in dim restaurants suddenly seem harder to read than they used to be. This gradual loss of close-up focus, called presbyopia, is not a sign that something has gone wrong with your eyes; it is simply a normal part of aging that happens to almost everyone eventually. The good news is that presbyopia is one of the most treatable age-related vision changes available today, and patients explori