KeepSight's key optometry for diabetic eye disease
Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of vision loss and avoidable blindness in working-age Australians. It is now three years since the launch of KeepSight, Australia’s diabetes eye disease screening initiative that is turning attention to diabetes-related vision loss. In Part 2 of National Diabetes Week (10-16 July), Outlook check with some of the program’s key stakeholders. Black Taryn, Diabetes Australia – national program and policy director The daily burden of living with diabetes can be significant. It is estimated that people with diabetes face up to 180 diabetes-related decisions every day – that’s more than 65,000 extra decisions a year. Combined with busy personal and professional lives, remembering and scheduling regular eye exams can be ignored or put on a priority ‘list’. Add to that the global pandemic and significant disruption to routine health care over the past two years, and it’s no surprise that people’s regular...