How is it treated?

Presbyopia can usually be corrected with reading glasses. If you didn't need glasses or contacts before presbyopia appeared, you can probably correct your eyesight by using reading glasses for close work.

If you already use glasses or contacts to correct nearsightedness, farsightedness, or astigmatism, you'll need a new prescription that will also correct presbyopia. You may wish to use bifocals, in which distant vision is corrected at eye level and close vision is corrected at the bottom. Other options include trifocal glasses, which can correct for distant, near, and middle vision; bifocal contact lenses; or monovision contact lenses, which correct distant vision in your dominant eye and close vision in your weaker eye. Your prescription may have to be adjusted over time as presbyopia worsens.

If you don't want to wear glasses or contacts, surgery may be an option to correct presbyopia. Procedures being used to treat presbyopia include laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) and photorefractive keratectomy (PRK), which use lasers to reshape the cornea of your eye.