Help spread the word about recognizing the signs of elder abuse. This is the festive season, but for some people it will bring more stress and more fear. Here is a guest post laying out what can happen and what to do about it. by Audrey Demmitt RN. Audrey is married with 3 wonderful adult […]
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My book, When You Can’t Believe Your Eyes: Vision Loss and Personal Recovery has just won a second award: Vision Rehab Therapy Publication award 2020 from my own profession! This book took fifteen years to complete with input from hundreds of people new to vision loss, fellow faculty at the Carroll Center for the Blind and […]
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It is not only the person going through sight loss who experiences shock and grief. My post ( Dealing with Vision Loss in Your Partner, Parent or Best Friend, from 2014 has on-going comments from first publication to just last week. Partners often lack emotional support and somewhere to relax as well as someone to […]
Read more "The Team Approach to Sight Loss In Your Partner"Dealing with Vision Loss in Your Partner, Parent, or Best Friend. This post published in April 2014 had had the longest -running comment section of any; the latest just last week! All the comments are from partners of someone who has lost a lot of sight. Partners of adults with vision loss do not have […]
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“When someone wishes to avoid conflicting or embarrassing communications, they express their feelings non-verbally,” says a researcher in Non Verbal Communications. On Sunday I was at a socially-distant picnic. There was a red cloth on the grass, I anchored it with my purse against the gusty breeze. Everyone in the circle was a friend of […]
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It’s hard to admit a loss at any stage. There is a need to cope, that might take many different shapes, forms, length, and breadth. There is a particular sense of self that needs to adjust before going ‘public’ with the news. The story line isn’t about one person in particular, suppose it was more […]
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Speaking up when you can’t see – a major topic of my new book and VLPR blog is featured in the latest Hadley Institute podcast. The interviewer Elyse Heinrich, a learning expert with Hadly asked great questions in a friendly and casual way that brought out a lot of good points. Here’s the link to […]
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Repost from the New York Times Modern Love series. Leona Godin describes some infuriating aspects of a blind/sighted relationship. “Blindness can make you paranoid in love. Is he looking at another woman? Is she prettier than me?” New acquaintances often give your sighted partner credit for even writing your emails! M. Leona Godin is a […]
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All of us who share a home (which is mostly fortunate in this virus time,) have been communicating during the previous month and more in a confined space, and we’ve all been exposed to either dreadful stress or lack of outside stimulus. Staying calm and listening has become extra hard. Recently I was woken out […]
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At 75, I am in the “at risk” category for coronavirus (COVID-19). I am also legally blind. Are there times where blindness or visual impairment makes me and others with vision loss more vulnerable? Are there aspects of vision loss that make us safer? We have to be prepared and proactive because many of us […]
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