Eye Exams Pricing at Lifetime Eyecare
Kids / Seniors $0 Eye Exams with BC Care Card*
Student Eye Exams $85
Adult Eye Exams $130
How often should you get an eye exam?
This is very important question. This is why you will see this answered on more than one page of our website. The answer lies can really depend on your health, age, health conditions or concerns you may have and other eye care needs that are specfic to you.
Overall, the Canadian Association of Optometrists (CAO) has some pretty recommendations about when you should get your next eye exam.
- Very young children (up to one year) really should have their first eye exams within their first year of life. This is important to look for any issues that may exist early on.
- Children between the ages of 2 and 5 should have at least one eye exam before starting their schooling. Again this is important for identifying any issues prior to being in a learning environment.
- Children between the ages of 6 up to about 18 should have an eye exam every single year. Why? Because it is during this developmental period that vision issues can begin to emerge, affecting quality of life, education and even sports and activities.
- Adults between the ages of 19 and 64 should get an eye exam at least every two years. In cases where adults have existing health or vision conditions should continue to get eye exams every single year.
- Seniors should be seeing their optometrist every single year at a minimum. Seniors have more vision degredation that any other group, along with various vision health issues such as strabismus to glaucoma that can have a very powerful negative affect on the quality of life for seniors.
Why is it so important to get eye exams regularly and what can happen if you don't?
The results of ignoring your eye care needs can be a big deal for some people.
- You can experience eye strain, headeaches or dry eyes and never make the connection that is is related to your vision.
- You can find it hard to read for long periods, struggle to stay focused when needing to read, and can even find driving or doing other tasks challenging or even dangerous.
- You may have a vision-related or eye health issue that you don't know about until your Optometrist idenfies it for you.
- You could be developing a vascular-related diseases including Cataracts, Macular Degeneration, Glaucoma and Diabetes to name a few and would not be aware of it until it has become a real problem.
- You could even have such sever conditions as Cancer, Hyperthyroidism or Multiple Sclerosis, which can sometimes can be discovered early through an eye exam.
- When it relates to your children, they may struggle in school, sports or other activities due to vision issues and until you identify and mitigate it, they may continue to suffer or find such things difficult or even may resist engaging in them.
- There is so much that can be learned through an eye exam and since your eyes are the 'WINDOWS INTO YOUR BODY' they can tell us a lot about the status of your overall health.
- Vision and eye health can change rapidly in certain situations, particularly for children and seniors, so getting an eye exam very often is so important for early detection. In some cases, an eye exam can even save your life. There have been cases where certain cancers were detected early and lives were saved.
