Back in 2012, Dench was diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration, AMD for short, which is the biggest cause of sight loss in the UK according to the Macular Society. Affecting the middle part of an individual's vision, although it does not cause total blindness, it can make everyday activities, such as reading and recognising faces, difficult. Speaking about her own battle with the condition, Dench has admitted that she has had to give up her favourite past times such as reading a book or doing a crossword puzzle, but has cleverly been able to find ways to adapt to the condition as well.
"I've had to find another way of learning lines and things, which is having great friends of mine repeat them to me over, and over, and over again," she revealed in a past interview.
"So I have to learn through repetition, and I just hope that people won't notice too much if all the lines are completely hopeless!"
"A couple of years ago I stopped driving," she began, before going on to call it one of the most "traumatic" and "appalling" moments of her life.
"But I just know I'll kill somebody if I get behind the wheel of a car now," she continued to say.
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"I don't want to say. I can see enough... You adapt to it. So I ignore it altogether."
Aged 77 at the time of diagnosis, Dench began to suffer from AMD at a relatively old age, with some individuals being diagnosed as early as 55.
Determined that she was not going to let the progressive condition put a stop on her career, Dench also revealed that she now also prints all of her scripts in 22-point font and takes a friend to the cinema so they can tell her what is going on.
She said: "On my scripts, my font is point-size 22, so you can imagine... if we're doing a sonnet of 14 lines, all the others will have one page and I'll have 14!
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"It's ridiculous, it's a farce, but I'm not going to give in.
"These days I can't really travel on my own because I need someone to say, 'Look out, there's a step here!' or else I fall all over the place like a mad, drunk lady."