Prevent Blindness Ohio Designates June as Cataract Awareness Month, Offering Free Educational Resources

Prevent Blindness Ohio has declared June as Cataract Awareness Month to provide patients and professionals with free educational resources on cataract, a clouding of the eye’s lens.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cataract is the leading cause of blindness worldwide and the leading cause of vision loss in the United States.

Additionally, an estimated 20.5 million Americans aged 40 years and older have cataract in one or both eyes.

More than half of all Americans have cataract by the time they are 80 years old. However, cataract can also sometimes be found in young people or even newborn babies.

Prevent Blindness Ohio offers a variety of free informational resources in English and Spanish including fact sheets, social media graphics, and a listing of vision care financial assistance programs.

For free information on cataract or cataract surgery, please visit PreventBlindness.org/cataract. For a listing of vision care financial assistance programs in English and Spanish, visit PreventBlindness.org/vision-care-financial-assistance-information. Or contact Prevent Blindness Ohio at 800-301-2020 or pbohio.org.

About Prevent Blindness
Founded in 1908, Prevent Blindness is the nation’s leading volunteer eye health and safety organization dedicated to fighting blindness and saving sight. The Ohio Affiliate of Prevent Blindness serves all 88 Ohio counties, providing direct services to 1,000,000 Ohioans annually and educating millions of consumers about what they can do to protect and preserve their precious gift of sight. For more information or to contribute, call 800-301-2020 or donate here.  Visit us at pbohio.org. Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/pbohio/ and X:twitter.com/PB_Ohio