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[MODERATOR'S NOTE: These first two posts have been moved from another thread, as the topic seems worth a thread of its own.]
Edit (to explain the issue now that this has been used to create a new thread)
Older walkers might have noticed that when they are using bi-focal, multi-focal or graduated lenses that they have to drop their head to get the ground in front of their feet into the sweet spot on the lenses where it is in focus. For those who have yet to experience the joy of slowly losing their ability to accommodate large ranges of focus point, these lenses have a lower section designed to act as reading glasses while the upper parts of the lenses provide distance correction.
The ground is out of focus through the lower part of the lenses, and tilting the head down brings one's line of sight into the middle of the lenses, where it will be in focus. Next time you see an older, bespectacled person walking with their head down, you might suspect that they are just taking care about where to put their feet next.
Edit (to explain the issue now that this has been used to create a new thread)
Older walkers might have noticed that when they are using bi-focal, multi-focal or graduated lenses that they have to drop their head to get the ground in front of their feet into the sweet spot on the lenses where it is in focus. For those who have yet to experience the joy of slowly losing their ability to accommodate large ranges of focus point, these lenses have a lower section designed to act as reading glasses while the upper parts of the lenses provide distance correction.
The ground is out of focus through the lower part of the lenses, and tilting the head down brings one's line of sight into the middle of the lenses, where it will be in focus. Next time you see an older, bespectacled person walking with their head down, you might suspect that they are just taking care about where to put their feet next.
A few years ago I had spectacles made with plain lenses that provided just my distance correction, and no graduated correction for accommodation (or the increasing lack of it). These do work to stop me from having to drop my head to get the ground focused at my feet. There is a downside, and that is removing my glasses to read a map or GPS.You lost me at this point I'm afraid. Poles are a personal decision. I wear varifocals and have a tendency to bend my head over so the ground is in focus. Walking with poles I don't bend my head over so maintain a much healthier posture. I find poles helpful in many ways, that's just one.
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