In the last federal budget, Medicare announced changes to bulk billing rules, and have changed the waiting period for a full eye test exam by an optometrist for people over 65 from two years to one. Over 65s can now visit their optometrist each year and be assured of a full scope, bulk billed, test allowing more regular checks on conditions that may affect their eyes as they age. We often take eyesight and good ocular health for granted until changes start to occur as we age. This is when more regular checks should be carried out. The first time most of us probably realize that our eyes are changing is in our early 40s. Reading material further away from our normal reading distance to the extent where our arms become “too short!” This is common condition happens to all of us and is called “Presbyopia” a Latin word meaning “old eyes.” This occurs when the natural lens of the human eye becomes less flexible and able to focus close up and is usually simply corrected by reading glasses or additional power being introduced to existing distance glasses, ie bifocal or multifocal lenses. For most, this might be all we notice for the next twenty years or so but in our sixties and seventies other ocular conditions may present themselves justifying more regular check ups. Tim Osborn from Opti-Call Visiting Eye Care has been working in aged care facilities for fifteen years and has developed an ongoing strategy to help. Opti-Call provide regular mobile eye clinics and along with an experienced team they service more than 65 facilities from Nuriootpa to Victor Harbor, seeing up to 20 residents in aged care facilities per day. Cataracts, Macular degeneration, Diabetic Retinopathy, Glaucoma, Are some of the conditions that can affect us as we age, and are covered in these exams. Opti-Call practitioners are all experienced in looking after patients who may be suffering from dementia, or stroke victims, all of whom may benefit from such assessments. The aged care facilities they attend are provided with full feedback on their residents eye health and liaise with ophthalmologists, GPs and nursing staff at facilities to implement ongoing treatment regimes and updates in glasses where needed.