Adapt your lighting to your age
Adapt your lighting to your age
Over time, our eyes become more sensitive and react more
strongly to light. It is, therefore, necessary to do some adjustment so in the
lighting of the house in order to maintain a good quality of life and sight.
Space can become more comfortable even when the view changes with age.
How does the perception of light change with age?
Changes in vision can occur throughout life, but once they
reach a certain age, these changes become even more worrying than simply not
seeing objects from a distance. Just like the rest of the body, some muscles of
the eye begin to weaken. Have you ever shone a light in one eye and watched the
pupil dilate? The muscles involved in this phenomenon are intended to control
the quality of the light collected and, as we get older, they find themselves
lagging behind in their reaction time. This implies that the eyes take longer
to adapt to dark or bright environments. Other changes can occur such as the
yellowing of the lens that affects the perception of colors, the appearance of
spots or "floats" in the vision caused by particles in the vitreous
body of the eye and cataracts that cause areas of fog in the eyes. Medical
measures may be decided to repair these phenomena or improve these conditions,
but good lighting may also help to compensate for some of these eye disorders.
What kind of light to choose to adapt to these changes?
Intense light
The troubled vision due to age can often be solved by simply
using more light than usual. This does not necessarily mean that you have to
raise the brightness of all the lighting in your home to extreme levels, but
you can use more intense lights for certain tasks, such as table lamps, floor
lamps, wall sconces, under cabinet lights to provide more lighting for
activities such as cooking, reading or using the bathroom mirror, etc. That
being said, it's not necessarily a bad idea to increase the general lighting in
your home. A simple way to do this is to use high power LED light.
Ambient lighting
As mentioned above, older eyes have difficulty adjusting to
different levels of light as quickly as before. In order to provide as much
comfort as possible to the eyes, you need to set up uniform ambient lighting throughout the house. This
means that no room should be brighter or darker than another in a brutal way:
there must be smooth transitions of lighting from room to room. The addition of
dimmers (dimmers) can also make it easier to adjust light levels in different
rooms.
Anti-glare light
The glare of the extremely powerful light emitted by the light
can trigger vision problems and even worse, "floating bodies". These
floating bodies and other eye injuries can cause light scattering in the eye.
This increases the sensitivity to glare, which is not the case for low light
levels. To avoid glare, make sure your light sources are shaded in the
diffusion or not directed directly to the eyes. For example, you can use
spotlights with frosted lenses to mask the light source.
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