What is the definition or description of: age-related macular degeneration?

Aging retina: If you think of your eye as being like a camera, the macula is like the film of the camera. It is the part of the eye that develops the image of whatever you are looking at. In macular degeneration, the retina is wearing down, sort of like camera film that is getting too old. The image become less and less clear as the macula wears down, sort of like a camera that can't take a clear picture.

Two types: Genetic disease affecting the central vision in some older adults. 1. Dry age-related macular degeneration: treated with areds vitamins, tobacco cessation. 2. Wet age-related macular degeneration: intravitreal injections of anti-vegf molecules like avastin, lucentis, (ranibizumab) or eylea.

Macular degeneration: Defined as macular degeneration that occurs in older people, but sometimes the same pathological occurrence can happen in younger folk.