An updated approach to low-vision assessment
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 losses and dependency. Seeing the rapidly increasin...
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| description | 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 losses and dependency. Seeing the rapidly increasing burden of low vision (LV) globally, and more specifically, in the developing world, there is a need to have the provision of good quality LV care as a key element of the comprehensive eye service. The assessment of a visually challenged client by an ophthalmologist or optometrist is substantially different from a standard or routine examination in an ophthalmology unit. Eye professionals should be prepared to spend twice or thrice the amount of time spent on routine eye examinations. An accurate assessment of visual, functional, and psychological needs leads to clarity in prescribing appropriate LV devices. LV rehabilitation is the only nonsurgical treatment modality for vision impairment and this review article throws light on this overlooked aspect of eye services. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f25f410beb314e3cab95967f1b22610c2023-01-12T12:22:43ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsJournal of Clinical Ophthalmology and Research2320-38972022-01-0110313714310.4103/jcor.jcor_22_22An updated approach to low-vision assessmentAlka TripathiRicha AgarwalThe 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 losses and dependency. Seeing the rapidly increasing burden of low vision (LV) globally, and more specifically, in the developing world, there is a need to have the provision of good quality LV care as a key element of the comprehensive eye service. The assessment of a visually challenged client by an ophthalmologist or optometrist is substantially different from a standard or routine examination in an ophthalmology unit. Eye professionals should be prepared to spend twice or thrice the amount of time spent on routine eye examinations. An accurate assessment of visual, functional, and psychological needs leads to clarity in prescribing appropriate LV devices. LV rehabilitation is the only nonsurgical treatment modality for vision impairment and this review article throws light on this overlooked aspect of eye services.http://www.jcor.in/article.asp?issn=2320-3897;year=2022;volume=10;issue=3;spage=137;epage=143;aulast=Tripathilow-vision deviceslow-vision assessmentquality of lifetelescopesvision rehabilitation |
| spellingShingle | Alka Tripathi Richa Agarwal An updated approach to low-vision assessment Journal of Clinical Ophthalmology and Research low-vision devices low-vision assessment quality of life telescopes vision rehabilitation |
| title | An updated approach to low-vision assessment |
| title_full | An updated approach to low-vision assessment |
| title_fullStr | An updated approach to low-vision assessment |
| title_full_unstemmed | An updated approach to low-vision assessment |
| title_short | An updated approach to low-vision assessment |
| title_sort | updated approach to low vision assessment |
| topic | low-vision devices low-vision assessment quality of life telescopes vision rehabilitation |
| url | http://www.jcor.in/article.asp?issn=2320-3897;year=2022;volume=10;issue=3;spage=137;epage=143;aulast=Tripathi |
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