Nursing Intervention of Blinking Exercises to Alleviate Dry Eye and Enhance Daily Life in Older Adults

The Research hypotheses include H0: Nursing interventions of blinking exercise do not affect the level of dry eyes and daily life in older adults. H1: Nursing interventions of blinking exercise affect the level of dry eyes and daily life in older adults. Participants were divided into two groups (study and control). Both groups were asked to fill out all questionnaires before and after the study using the same tools. In the control group, older adult receives routine care, which was provided by the hospital as examination, application of moisturizing eye drops three- five times Aday for 4 weeks . Participants were asked to answer a post-test using the same pre-test questionnaires. And the study group were divided into small training groups with 3-5 older adult for each group. Two sessions were needed for each group each session took about 1- 2hrs.