At 50, I have the opposite of what a lot of my peers have. I can see close up without my glasses just fine. It's a life long problem with seeing distance that I have trouble with. Over the past 8 years or so, it has been somewhat promlematic, as I must now remove my glasses to read something, or when I sit down at a computer screen. They I must put them back on. Never used to be a problem.
I could get bifocals, but so far I have not sprung for them.
I do like my increasingly grey hair though. I can wander all over Best Buy, and the blue shirts leave me alone. Cops in their 20's call me "Sir", which I find hilarious.