Could a simple eye test diagnose Alzheimer’s?
Alzheimer's disease could one day be diagnosed by using a simple eye test.
The disease is thought to kill the cells in your eyes at the same time as it kills off the cells in your brain. This means it may eventually be possible to spot dementia early by using an easy and inexpensive test, performed at your local optician’s.
Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia affect more than 800,000 people in the UK alone and the number is expected to double within a generation as the population ages.
