Nurses play a vital role in the promotion of health and well-being of patients and in the support of family caregivers who provide care to functionally impaired older adults. Vision loss in older adults often leads to functional impairment and dependency. Nurses, with advanced knowledge of common vision problems in old age, can play an important role in education that may promote behaviors that can have a positive effect on preventing and slowing the progression of age-related vision loss. This is especially important because the prevalence of vision impairment due to age-related causes is expected to increase as the U.S. population ages. Globally, vision impairment is a major problem as well, with a high prevalence of blindness worldwide.