Vision Rehabilitation

"Growth in the older population will also have an impact on the field of vision rehabilitation: more older people will experience age-related vision loss than can be served. This is due to limited resources, both in funding and personnel. In fact, in the last decade fewer than 2 percent of older persons with vision loss have received services through the Title VII Chapter 2 service delivery program, Independent Living Services for Older Individuals Who Are Blind, which is the only federally funded program of vision rehabilitation services for older persons experiencing vision loss. A major initiative was therefore called for in the vision rehabilitation field to address this overwhelming situation."

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