Glaucoma Awareness Week takes place on 28 June – 4 July 2021 and this year’s theme is family and loved ones.
Glaucoma Awareness Week is an annual awareness-raising opportunity where people across the UK are encouraged to talk about glaucoma. Over 700,000 people in the UK have glaucoma. Half of them don’t know they have it. Therefore it is important to raise awareness to help end preventable glaucoma sight loss.
What can you do this week? Help start the conversation about glaucoma
You are at least a four-times higher risk of developing glaucoma if you have a close blood relative who has it.
If you’re living with glaucoma, you should encourage your family members to attend sight tests every two years.
Glaucoma can be treated. The earlier it is detected, the more successful the treatment is likely to be in controlling it and preventing sight loss. Most people with early glaucoma have no symptoms. That’s why it is so important to ensure that your relatives have regular eye examinations.
