Correctable visual impairment in stroke rehabilitation patients

Correctable visual impairment in stroke rehabilitation patients.

BACKGROUND after stroke, visual impairment may exacerbate the impact of other impairments on overall disability and negatively influence rehabilitation. OBJECTIVE to examine the visual status of patients after stroke and determine whether this can be improved by simple interventions. DESIGN prospective study. SETTINGS stroke rehabilitation unit in a Belfast teaching hospital. SUBJECTS 7...

Correctable visual impairment in older people: a major unmet need.

This review seeks to determine the prevalence of correctable visual impairment (VI) in older people in the UK, to discover what proportion of these cases are undetected, to suggest reasons for the poor detection and to make recommendations for improving the detection. To establish the context of these issues, the review will also touch on the general prevalence and causes of VI in older people ...

Visual impairment and correctable visual impairment in an elderly population: the Baoshan eye study

Association between Rehabilitation Needs and Quality of Life of the Elderly Patients with Visual Impairment

Introduction: Given to the high prevalence of  impaired vision in aging population and importance of their quality of life, this study was aimed to evaluate the association between quality of life and vision rehabilitation needs in elderly patients with low vision referring to Bu Ali Sina Hospital, Qazvin, Iran.   Methods: A total of 94 elderly patients with visual acuity less than 6/18 parti...

Visual impairment following stroke: do stroke patients require vision assessment?

BACKGROUND the types of visual impairment followings stroke are wide ranging and encompass low vision, eye movement and visual field abnormalities, and visual perceptual difficulties. OBJECTIVE the purpose of this paper is to present a 1-year data set and identify the types of visual impairment occurring following stroke and their prevalence. METHODS a multi-centre prospective observation s...