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Low Vision Care—Two Case Reports

Optometry and Vision Science, 1981
Abstract Two patients are discussed and their similarities and differences are noted. Both lost an eye as a result of military service. One had low vision in the remaining eye because of a retinal problem with generally clear media. The other had an essentially normally functioning retina but light transmission was compromised because
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Barriers to accessing low-vision care: the patient’s perspective

Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2013
To review the literature regarding barriers that hinder access to low-vision (LV) care from the perspective of individuals with vision impairment.Literature review.PubMed and Scopus were used to identify relevant cross-sectional studies of awareness of, and barriers to, LV rehabilitation.
Norris, Lam, Susan J, Leat
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Notes on the use of low magnification telescopes in low vision care

Clinical and Experimental Optometry, 1990
Several areas related to the use of telescopes in low vision are reviewed. These include: contrast sensitivity function; eccentric viewing through a telescope; field of view; telescope used in reverse; and IOL-spectacle lens telescopic systems. Experimental data are included to support selected clinical observations routinely made by low vision ...
Dagmar Otto, George C. Woo
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Comprehensive Low Vision Care: Part Two

Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1975
Between July 1970 and July 1973, a total of 1,118 patients were seen at the Vision Rehabilitation Clinic, a part of the Gundersen Eye Clinic, Boston University Medical Center. The visual function of approximately 75 percent of all patients was significantly improved with visual aids and counseling. This high rate of success was the result of innovative
Dagmar B. Friedman, Herbert L. Kayne, Carter B. Tallman, John E. Asarkof   +3 more
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Low Vision Care

Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1975
EDWIN B. MEHR, ALLAN N. FRIED
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[Low vision and care strategy].

La Revue du praticien, 2009
A low vision method is based on tests or exercices whose supports are, how the visual system works as a whole, with independant separated frequential canals, an elaboration of a mental representation with the intervention of memory mechanism and prototypie structuration of objects, a multisensorial analysis of the representation and not only a visual ...
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Comprehensive Low Vision Care: Part One

Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1974
The program of vision rehabilitation at Boston University Medical Center is described. From July 1970, to July 1973, 1,000 patients were seen by a multidisciplinary staff of ophthalmologists, optometrists, and social workers. The staff, using an array of optical, mechanical, and electronic devices, plus additional professional consultation, made ...
Dagmar B. Friedman, Carter B. Tallman, John E. Asarkof   +2 more
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Care of Elderly People with Low Vision

Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1982
The nature and extent of visual impairment among the elderly and their implications for health planning are described. Important components of the low vision examination, the kinds of low vision aids most useful for elderly persons, and the adaptive factors, including environmental controls, are emphasized as important aspects of the rehabilitation ...
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The Maze of Care for Low Vision: Practitioner and Patient

Home Health Care Management & Practice, 2007
As an independent practitioner working with individuals with vision loss, one of the authors has had many collegial opportunities and many collegial disappointments. The road to independent practice in the field of vision loss was not a direct route but a maze of wrong turns, dead ends, and ultimately success in finding a path.
Susan Zekert, Barbara Stover Gingerich
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Low Vision Care: The Kooyong Experience

Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1985
A low vision clinic is being operated at Kooyong, Australia, by the Association for the Blind in conjunction with the Department of Ophthalmology of the University of Melbourne and the Victorian College of Optometry. The development and growth of the clinic is described, and its aims, referral procedures, management and administration, ophthalmic ...
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