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Purpose. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the low vision rehabilitation methods and to investigate the effect of visual rehabilitation on quality of life in patients with low vision due to geographic atrophy from age-related macular degeneration ...
Damla Erginturk Acar +4 more
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IntroductionThe occurrence of age-related vision changes is inevitable. However, some of these changes can become pathological. Research indicates that vision and hearing loss is correlated with age-related cognitive decline, and with a higher risk of ...
Gabrielle Aubin +9 more
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Low Vision Assessment and Rehabilitation
Low vision and blindness are a growing health problem that adversely affects the quality of life of an individual. Low vision rehabilitation (LVR) is the process of restoring functional ability and improving quality of life and independence of a patient ...
Rebika Dhiman +4 more
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Tablet computers versus optical aids to support education and learning in children and young people with low vision: protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial, CREATE (Children Reading with Electronic Assistance To Educate) [PDF]
INTRODUCTION: Low vision and blindness adversely affect education and independence of children and young people. New 'assistive' technologies such as tablet computers can display text in enlarged font, read text out to the user, allow speech input and ...
Bharani, S +7 more
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Socio-demographic characteristics, lifestyle factors and burden of morbidity associated with self-reported hearing and vision impairments in older British community-dwelling men: a cross-sectional study. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Hearing and vision problems are common in older adults. We investigated the association of self-reported sensory impairment with lifestyle factors, chronic conditions, physical functioning, quality of life and social interaction.
Carvalho, LA +8 more
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Profile of paediatric low vision population: a retrospective study from Nepal. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Childhood blindness and low vision have become major public health problems in developing countries. The purpose of this study was to categorise the causes of visual impairment according to aetiology and provide detailed local information on ...
Khanal, Safal +3 more
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A reconfigurable real-time morphological system for augmented vision [PDF]
There is a significant number of visually impaired individuals who suffer sensitivity loss to high spatial frequencies, for whom current optical devices are limited in degree of visual aid and practical application.
Ahmadinia, A. +4 more
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Navigation and mobility are some of the major problems faced by visually impaired people in their daily lives. Advances in computer vision led to the proposal of some navigation systems. However, most of them require expensive and/or heavy hardware.
Breve, Fabricio +1 more
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Application of Low Vision Aids and the Ratios of Telescopic Glasses Usage
Purpose: To evaluate the results of our low vision aids (LVAs) application and to determine the ratios of usage of devices. Material and Method: 129 patients examined between December 2010 and June 2012 were included in the study.
Deniz Altınbay
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Introduction: Management of low vision in pediatric patients with greater result can affect their quality of life than in adult low vision patients.. Retinopathy of Prematurity is the main cause of blindness in children.
Christina Aritonang
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