Sight loss affects 1.8 million people in the UK, and 64% of blind and 66% of partially sighted people are aged 75 or over. This practical guide explains the causes of sight loss for all ages, and focuses on help for people and gives practical tips to make life easier. Whether you are someone with sight loss or a professional who supports people, this book will give you a good knowledge of the condition plus information on how to find your way round the systems and obtain help.
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Antonia Chitty is an experienced author and journalist. Antonia has worked in the field of visual impairment and trained as an optometrist. She worked on sight loss prevention for RNIB before becoming a journalist writing health features for Which? magazine. She now writes on health, business and parenting. Victoria dawson is a qualified teacher who has worked with children with special needs and their families for the last 10 years. She has worked with children and young adults with visual impairments. She holds a Post graduate diploma in Special and Inclusive Education, and has a special interest in sleep difficulties.
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Since being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, my worries about the possibility of sight loss have increased considerably. One of the first things you learn is that diabetes is one of the major causes of blindness in the UK, along with numerous other ailments that are quite distressing to contemplate. This book covers sight loss from all angles (so to speak!). It is clear and comprehensive, covering all the main causes of sight loss or impaired vision, including macular degeneration, glaucoma, cataracts and diabetes. Each topic is described in terms of its causes, diagnosis and available treatments, with helpful summaries and checklist finishing each chapter.
As a diabetic, I learn that I am also at much higher risk of glaucoma and cataracts, so these chapters were also of interest to me in addition to the chapter on diabetic retinopathy. The topics are not exhaustively discussed, but the main options are described satisfactorily, and there is an extensive appendix with links for further reading, and addresses of organisations that can provide help and advice. In addition to the chapters on eye problems, there are good chapters on mobility, help around the home and financial help, all with useful, practical tips of how to adapt to impaired vision should it occur.
Overall, very readable overview of major causes of sight loss, diagnosis and treatments.
As a diabetic, I learn that I am also at much higher risk of glaucoma and cataracts, so these chapters were also of interest to me in addition to the chapter on diabetic retinopathy. The topics are not exhaustively discussed, but the main options are described satisfactorily, and there is an extensive appendix with links for further reading, and addresses of organisations that can provide help and advice. In addition to the chapters on eye problems, there are good chapters on mobility, help around the home and financial help, all with useful, practical tips of how to adapt to impaired vision should it occur.
Overall, very readable overview of major causes of sight loss, diagnosis and treatments.
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