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The Effect of Visual Impairment and Its Severity on Vision-Related and Health-Related Quality of Life in Jordan: A Comparative Cross-Sectional Study

open access: yesJournal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, 2023
Hisham M Jammal,1 Yousef Khader,2 Saddam F Kanaan,3 Rami Al-Dwairi,1 Hasan Mohidat,1 Rami Al-Omari,4 Noor Alqudah,1 Omar A Saleh,1 Haneen Alshorman,1 Muawyah Al Bdour5 1Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Jordan University of Science and ...
Jammal HM   +9 more
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Rehabilitation Methods for Patients with Geographic Atrophy due to Age-Related Macular Degeneration and Effects of Rehabilitation on Quality of Life

open access: yesJournal of Ophthalmology, 2023
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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An updated approach to low-vision assessment

open access: yesJournal of Clinical Ophthalmology and Research, 2022
The 2017 Global Burden of Disease study ranked vision impairment, including blindness, as the third cause among all impairments for years lived with disability visual impairment has enormous social and economic consequences in terms of productivity ...
Alka Tripathi, Richa Agarwal
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Low Vision in Older Adults [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Educational Objectives 1. Understand the epidemiology of visual impairments of older adults. 2. Understand the symptoms of functional loss secondary to visual impairments. 3. Understand the rehabilitative options available for those with vision loss.
Bullock, Mary D., Michaels, Jeffrey C.
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Vertical and horizontal reading training in patients with hemianopia and its effect on reading eye movements

open access: yesScientific Reports
Vertical reading training (VRTr) increases reading speed (RS) significantly in patients with hemianopic field defects (HFD). We ask, how eye movements (EM) contribute to this improvement and whether EM-behavior is affected by the side of HFD.
S. Kuester-Gruber   +5 more
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Intership in low-vision and visual training programs: stage in Ipovisione e programmi Visual Training [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In this final project for the Degree in Optics and Optometry, I collected information in low vision rehabilitation. I followed an internship at the San Paolo Hospital in Milan, under the guidance of Doctor Paolo Ferri, Orthoptist by profession, where ...
Sanchez-Molero Muñoz, Francisco Jose
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Selection of sustainability indicators for health services in challenging environments: balancing scientific approach with political engagement.

open access: yes, 2012
Sustainability evaluation has become a key component of international health. However, evaluators have faced a number of challenges linked to the lack of consensus on the meaning of the concept of "sustainability".
Blanchet, Karl, Girois, Susan
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How a Diverse Research Ecosystem Has Generated New Rehabilitation Technologies: Review of NIDILRR’s Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Over 50 million United States citizens (1 in 6 people in the US) have a developmental, acquired, or degenerative disability. The average US citizen can expect to live 20% of his or her life with a disability. Rehabilitation technologies play a major role
A Arnoldussen   +295 more
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Low Vision Rehabilitation in Older Adults

open access: yesTürk Oftalmoloji Dergisi, 2016
Objectives: To evaluate the diagnosis distribution, low vision rehabilitation methods and utilization of low vision rehabilitation in partially sighted persons over 65 years old.
Zuhal Özen Tunay   +2 more
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Eye movements of children with and without developmental dyslexia in an alphabetic script during alphabetic and logographic tasks

open access: yesScientific Reports
Eye movements (EM) during naming alphabetic versus logographic stimuli in children with and without developmental dyslexia (DD) were examined for each stimulus separately to identify conspicuous characteristics that influence naming performance.
Susanne Trauzettel-Klosinski   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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