Progressive contact lenses offer an alternative to spectacles for people who have presbyopia. Presbyopia is the natural reduction in our eye's ability to focus on nearer tasks as we age. So you're considering multifocal contact lenses, but you're not quite sure how they work? Unlike varifocal or bifocal glasses which have different vision zones across different parts of the lens, multifocal contact lenses have zones for near, intermediate and distance vision in one place,