Presbyopia is the gradual loss of your eye's ability to focus on nearby objects. It's a natural, often annoying part of aging and from 45-50 onwards you may expect to use reading spectacles or if you are short-sighted you have started to remove your spectacles to see up close.

New contact lens designs for presbyopia provide excellent alternatives in multifocal, bifocal, and monovision designs.

Multifocal lenses allow patients who require a reading prescription to see at distance and near. Unlike varifocal spectacles, the lenses automatically move into the position required for reading.

We supply the latest multifocal designs including Alcon’s Total One Multifocal, Johnson & Johnson Acuvue Oasys for Presbyopia, and the latest monthly lens from Bausch &Lomb Ultra for Astigmatism.

Rigid gas-permeable (RGP) multi-focals are available in a range of materials including Quasar HD

The Monovision Option

This option allows you to wear one lens for distance and one lens for reading.

Monovision contact lenses allow a person with presbyopia to do routine near tasks without reading glasses. With monovision, the eye that sees well for distance vision will be slightly blurred up close and the eye that sees well up close will be slightly blurred when looking at distant objects.

This option may seem a little strange but people really adapt to the switch from distance to near.