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Out of sight, not out of mind : personal and professional perspectives on age-related macular degeneration / Lindy Bergman with the Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired ; Jennifer E. Miller, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bergman, Lindy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Retinal degeneration.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (228 p.)
- Edition:
- Updated and expanded version.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : AFB Press, [2012]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind presents a personal account of living successfully with age-related macular degeneration (AMD), combined with powerful new information on effective service delivery. Ninety-three-year old Lindy Bergman illustrates the ways in which life with low vision can be lived with independence, dignity, and personal satisfaction. Also included are highly informative chapters, written by the world-renowned experts from The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who are Blind or Visually Impaired, encompassing the latest information about the causes and treatment of AMD; a concise, informative overviews of the effects of aging on vision, the emotional and psychological components of vision loss and the integration of the individual's psychological recovery into low vision service delivery; and a cutting-edge model of rehabilitation that meets the challenges of service provision today. Foreword by Jonathan Safran Foer, award-winning author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
- Contents:
- Gaining a sense of AMD
- Look at it this way
- Keeping your body as healthy as your mind
- Life with less vision, and how to move forward
- Consider the family
- A note to loved ones
- Vision and aging : general and clinical perspectives / Alfred A. Rosenbloom
- Age-related macular degeneration : causes and current medical perspectives / Gerald Allen Fishman
- Emotional and psychological reactions to age-related macular degeneration / David Rakofsky
- The low vision eye exam : what to expect / Kara Crumbliss
- Integrating low vision rehabilitation and assistive technology / Thomas Perski
- The importance of research in low vision / Patricia Grant.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-206) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-89128-670-5
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