Empowering Independence: Thriving with Vision Loss

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It’s not the first time you’ve bumped into the shelf or stubbed your toe on the staircase after misjudging the first step. Or perhaps you’ve stopped going for your evening walks after tripping over a curb that was difficult to see in the low light.

When making what seems like minor changes to your lifestyle, such as not taking your dog for a walk at night, it might not occur to you that your vision has changed. While a sudden change in the quality of your central vision would be obvious, seeing a little less at the edges of your vision is more easily ignored. Glaucoma might be the reason; unfortunately, there is no way to repair or reverse the vision loss it causes.

 

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