Background:By 2026,projections indicate that 1/5 Canadians will be over the age of *** shift in demographics will be accompanied by an increase in age-related eye *** studies have reported vision loss as a major medic...
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Background:By 2026,projections indicate that 1/5 Canadians will be over the age of *** shift in demographics will be accompanied by an increase in age-related eye *** studies have reported vision loss as a major medical concern among older adults,but there is little information on older adults’awareness and knowledge of age-related eye diseases.A lack of knowledge can lead to missed or delayed treatment and/or lifestyle *** study aims to assess the knowledge and understanding older adults have of their own eye disease and its ***:Participants over the age of 50 with a visual impairment were recruited from the MAB-Mackay rehabilitation Centre,the Low Vision Self-Help Association(LVSHA)of the West Island and through word of *** acuity and contrast sensitivity were measured using the ETDRS charts and Mars Charts,*** coherence tomography(OCT)/scanning laser ophthalmoscopy was used to take cross-sectional images of participant *** were asked to name their visual diagnoses and describe them in their own *** diagnoses were compared to diagnoses determined by an optometrist or ***:To date,this study has recruited 26 participants(7M,19F)over the age of 50 years(range,51-95 years).Many participants(73%)were able to name their visual diagnoses,articulate their symptoms,and discuss their treatment and *** majority of these individuals(67%)were clients of the MAB-Mackay or participants in the *** the 27%(4M,4F)who were unclear or had misunderstood their diagnoses,half were participants in a low vision support group,but they had multiple visual diagnoses and it was the congenital or trauma-related visual impairments acquired before joining the MAB-Mackay or LVSHA that remained *** other 4 individuals who misunderstood their diagnoses were not involved with any low vision or rehabilitation ***:Visual impairment is some
Objectives: We describe a novel rehabilitation tool for patients with homonymo us hemianopia based on a visual search (VS) paradigm that is portable, inexpensi ve, and easy to deploy. We hypothesised that by training ...
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Objectives: We describe a novel rehabilitation tool for patients with homonymo us hemianopia based on a visual search (VS) paradigm that is portable, inexpensi ve, and easy to deploy. We hypothesised that by training patients to improve the efficiency of eye movements made in their blind field their disability would be alleviated. Methods: Twenty nine patients with homonymous visual field defects (HVFD) without neglect practised VS paradigms in 20 daily sessions over one mont h. Search fields comprising randomly positioned target and distracter elements, differing by a single feature, were displayed for three seconds on a dedicated t elevision monitor in the patientshomes. Improvements were assessed by examinin g response time (RT), error rates in VS, perimetric visual fields (VFs) and visu al search fields (VSFs), before and after treatment. Functional improvements wer e measured using objective visual tasks which represented activities of daily li ving (ADL) and a subjective questionnaire. Results: As a group the patients had significantly shorter mean RT in VS after training (p < 0.001) and demonstrated a variety of mechanisms to account for this. Improvements were confined to the t raining period and maintained at follow up. Three patients had significantly lon ger RT after training. They had high initial error rates which improved with tra ining. Patients performed ADL tasks significantly faster after training and repo rted significant subjective improvements. There was no concomitant enlargement o f the VF, but there was a small but significant enlargement of the VSF. Conclusi on: Patients can improve VS with *** usually involves shorter RTs, but occasionally a longer RT in a complex speed accuracy trade off. These changes translate to improved overall visual function, assessed objectively and subject ively, suggesting that they represent robust training effects. The underlying me chanism may involve the adoption of compensatory eye movement strateg
HEALTHY EDUCATION METHOD The subject is population and population guide is *** education was given to patients every week and prevention, treatment nutrient,parmacy and notice items of DM were instructed to the *** bl...
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HEALTHY EDUCATION METHOD The subject is population and population guide is *** education was given to patients every week and prevention, treatment nutrient,parmacy and notice items of DM were instructed to the *** blackboard,wallpaper,prevention manual of DM, the patients were told to control blood glucose by adjusting *** direction were aimed at *** to conditions,educational levels,sex,age and familial status,the nurses communicated with the patients and carefully answer their questions to receive confidence,understanding and support and promote confidence of defeat diseases.
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