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What is HIV/AIDS?
Human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, is the virus that causes AIDS. HIV/AIDS weakens a person’s ability to fight infections. It is contracted through unprotected sex or needle sharing.
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How to View a Solar Eclipse Safely
The only safe way to look directly at the uneclipsed or partially eclipsed sun is through special-purpose solar filters, such as “eclipse glasses” or handheld solar viewers. Homemade filters or ordinary sunglasses, even very dark ones, are not safe for looking at the sun.
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June is Cataract Awareness Month
Did you know by the age of 80, more than half of all Americans either have a cataract or have had cataract surgery? To help keep your vision healthy, here are seven facts you should know about cataracts.
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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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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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Meeting the Needs of Children with Vision Loss
Linda Gerra, EdD, Director of Children’s Vision Programs at Lighthouse Guild, is an expert on working with children with blindness or visual impairment and the effect of visual impairment on early motor development.
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