Lighting & Ageing Eyes: Survey of 1,000 UK Over-60s on Home Brightness

We did not survey 1,000 over 60s and this report publishes no figures pretending otherwise. Instead Furniture in Fashion sets out why British homes fail ageing eyes: not insufficient output, but poor distribution. The ageing eye admits less light and scatters more of it, so it needs more illumination at the task while being more troubled by any bare source in view, and a single central pendant satisfies neither requirement. The report explains why a reader shades their own page under a ceiling light, recommends layered arrangements for reading chairs, kitchen worktops, mirrors, dining tables and bedsides, and gives practical positions including shade heights that keep the bulb out of the seated eye line. It also covers slower adaptation between light levels, why staircases should be switchable from both ends, and how contrast at edges, handrails and switches does work that brightness alone cannot. Colour temperature and glare control are addressed room by room....