Educational

When you go grocery shopping for fresh or frozen salmon have you noticed that there are several different kinds of this fish? The label may say Atlantic farm raised salmon or wild Alaskan salmon. If you are like me, you probably also noticed the price difference between the two with the wild Alaskan salmon costing […]

TV Glasses – Distance Magnifiers Just as there are magnifiers for close-up activities like reading, needlework, or wood carving, so are there magnifiers for distance activities like watching TV, going to the movies, or attending a sporting event. Color and Clarity Not surprisingly the most common pastime activity for those with macular degeneration is watching […]

 Low Vision Aids Visual aids for macular degeneration or other types of vision loss are useful and helpful for many different tasks. The best way to find out if a vision aid will work for you or your loved one is to be evaluated by a low vision specialist who can make recommendations or have […]

Working in Enhanced Vision’s sales department, I’m often afforded the opportunity to connect with customers on a direct level, in the sense that I get to talk to them and learn about how low vision has an impact on their lives. I’m actually excited to hear these stories, because there’s a good chance one of […]

When vision loss starts to interfere with one’s ability to see numbers on clocks, watches, microwaves, calculators, and more you may not need a magnifier, you may just need to switch to devices that talk. My father-in-law who has wet macular degeneration used to do most of the maintenance on his car. One of the […]

One of my favorite books on macular degeneration is The First Year: Age-Related Macular Degeneration: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed by Dan Roberts. As someone who has lived with macular degeneration for almost 20 years, he provides education and practical advice, not just about treating macular degeneration but about living with it as […]

Dick Barbuto When a person suffers from a disability/impairment/issue (or whatever the correct term is these days) there is a tendency to feel that all must somehow accommodate you. After all, you’re the one with the disability, right? Wrong. Having a disability means that you must also take the time and extend the effort to […]

Those of us with low vision or blindness collect information about our environment differently than sighted people.  That stands to reason when you consider that we have one less sense to rely on. I often hear that people without vision or who have low vision have their other senses enhanced.  Let me put that to […]

Wouldn’t it be great to know what environmental factors or what genes contributed to the development of age related macular degeneration (AMD)? My husband and I are helping to find the answers to these questions by being participants in the Genetics of Age-Related Maculopathy (GARM II) study at Jules Stein Eye Institute at the University […]

As a registered nurse who loves to educate others on health and wellness, it is so refreshing to find physicians who are interested in disease prevention. Several ophthalmologists have written books on nutrition and/or macular degeneration. They are Dr. Stephen Pratt, the author of Superfoods RX, Dr. Michael A. Samuel, the author of Macular Degeneration: […]