Month: May 2017
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Strategies for Challenging Behaviors in Adult Day Health Care Settings
Identify: “Challenging behavior” has become the most accepted term for actions whose intensity, frequency or duration puts the emotional and physical safety of the person or others in jeopardy.
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Monocular Vision: Etiology, Symptoms and Rehabilitation
The main consequences of this – monocular vision – are lack of depth perception and restricted peripheral vision in one eye.
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Valentin Haüy and Louis Braille: Enabling Education for the Blind
It was Haüy and Braille who would create an entirely new alphabet and establish the world’s first educational institutions for people who are blind, and form the foundation for future disability rights and the inclusion of people with blindness into society.
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Transformative Technological Advancements for the Patient with Low Vision
The advancement of technology has transformed the world, including how we live, work and interact with one another. Many technological advances in optometry are specifically designed for patients with low vision.
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Strategies for Challenging Behaviors in Adult Day Health Care Settings
In the setting of an Adult Day Health Care program, the additional burden of challenging behavior puts a vulnerable population in increased jeopardy. Goldie Dersh, PhD, Vice President of Behavioral Health Services at Lighthouse Guild, stresses three principles for optimizing the management of challenging behaviors: identify, intervene and collaborate.
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Monocular Vision: Etiology, Symptoms and Rehabilitation
There are a variety of reasons why a person can develop sudden visual loss, including inflammation, vasculitis, trauma and mechanical dysfunction. However, the most common cause is ocular infarction—ischemic damage to the eye—that results in permanent vision loss.
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Transformative Technological Advancements for the Patient with Low Vision
The advancement of technology has transformed the world, including how we live, work and interact with one another. Technological advances also have revolutionized medicine, to improve the lives of patients who once were seen as untreatable.
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