Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind: Personal and Professionals Perspectives on Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Foreword: How We Choose To See It

About the Contributors

PART 1 Personal Experiences Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind–Lindy Bergman’s Story

Preface

1 Gaining a Sense of AMD

2 Look at It This Way

3 Keeping Your Body as Healthy as Your Mind

4 Life with Less Vision, and How to Move Forward

5 Consider the Family

6 A Note to Loved Ones

Afterword: A Point of View

PART 2 Professional Perspectives

Prologue

7 Vision and Aging: General and Clinical Perspectives

8 Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Causes and Current Medical Perspectives

9 Emotional and Psychological Reactions to Age-Related Macular Degeneration

10 The Low Vision Eye Exam: What to Expect

11 Integrating Low Vision Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology

12 The Impact of Macular Degeneration: An Epilogue

Appendix: Age-Related Macular Degeneration Guide

Resources

Index

Narrative Descriptions

• Table of 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

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