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Vision Impairment and Blindness

If you have low vision, eyeglasses, contact lenses, medicine, or surgery may not help. Activities like reading, shopping, cooking, writing, and watching TV may be hard to do. The leading causes of low vision and blindness in the United States are age-related eye diseases: macular degeneration, cataract and glaucoma. Other eye disorders, eye injuries, and birth defects can also cause vision loss.

Whatever the cause, lost vision cannot be restored. It can, however, be managed. A loss of vision means that you may have to reorganize your life and learn new ways of doing things. If you have some vision, visual aids such as special glasses and large print books can make life easier. There are also devices to help those with no vision, like text-reading software and braille books.

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  1. Vision Impairment and Blindness (National Library of Medicine)  
    If you have low vision, eyeglasses, contact lenses, medicine, or surgery may not help. Activities like reading, shopping, cooking, writing, and watching ...
  2. ... Test Your Bladder Health Knowledge (Medical Encyclopedia) V Vision Impairment and Blindness Braille Bug: Games (American Foundation for the Blind) ...
  3. Fungal Keratitis (American Academy of Ophthalmology)  
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  4. ... 4.17. World Health Organization website. Eye care, vision impairment and blindness. www.who.int/health-topics/blindness-and-vision- ...
  5. ... Eye Care Eye Diseases Glaucoma Optic Nerve Disorders Vision Impairment and Blindness Related Medical Tests How to Cope with Medical Test Anxiety Vision Screening The information on this site should not ...
  6. Your Aging Eyes: How You See as Time Goes By From the National Institutes of Health (National Institutes of Health)  
    Vision Impairment and Blindness/Older Adults ... eye, eyesight, vision, eye disease, eye exam, aging, blindness, visual impairment, prevention, treatment, presbyopia, cataract, glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, AMD, diabetic eye disease Cynthia Owsley, Emily Chew
  7. ... Prevention -- www.cdc.gov/visionhealth/vehss/data/studies/vision-impairment-and-blindness.html Foundation Fighting Blindness -- www.fightingblindness.org National ...
  8. These complications can occur: Vision impairment or blindness (with the early-onset forms of the disease) Mental impairment, ranging from severe developmental delays at birth to dementia later ...
  9. ... any of these structures can lead to severe vision impairment or blindness.Some individuals with Blau syndrome develop kidney disease ( ...
  10. ... small (microphthalmia) or absent (anophthalmia), which causes severe vision impairment or blindness. Additional eye abnormalities common in BAMS include a ...
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