My ex-mother-in-law, aged 94, has age related MD. She manages incredibly well, but that's helped because she lives with us, and she won't ever give in to anything. She can see the TV if she sits with it next to her nose, bless her...and she reads everything through a brightly lit magnifying glass, which enables her to even still read newspapers.

I've a dear friend who has the other type of MD, and he's had it since his 30's.

One of the elderly ladies I look after has the first type I mentioned, but it's been caught really early on, so she's having a course of injections for it, which it's hoped, will stop it from degenerating further. That option wasn't available for Vi, so Bunty, even at 88, is already benefitting from the progress they're making with MD.

It'll be wonderful when they can cure this completely.