[Md-sligo] Fw: TOWN HALL MEETING with Dr. Alibhai on March 10 at Sibley -- LOW VISION REHABILITATION: GET THE FACTS!

[Debbie Brown]

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Subject: FW: TOWN HALL MEETING with Dr. Alibhai on March 10 at Sibley -- LOW 
VISION REHABILITATION: GET THE FACTS!


Thanks to Janet Morrison for letting us know about this program, and to the 
Prevention of Blindness Society of Metropolitan Washington for putting it 
on, see below. Please help spread the word.

Francie Gilman
Librarian
Rockville Memorial Library
Disability Resource Center

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From: janmorr27 <janmorr27 at aol.com>
To: janmorr27 <janmorr27 at aol.com>
Sent: Tue, Feb 19, 2013 1:57 pm
Subject: TOWN HALL MEETING - LOW VISION REHABILITATION: GET THE FCTS!

Suleiman Alibhai, OD, F.A.O.O., Low Vision Consultant, National Eye
Institute/NIH & Low Vision Learning Center Director for the Prevention
of Blindness Society of Metropolitan Washington will host a Town Hall
Meeting on Sunday, March 10, 2 - 3:30pm Sibley Medical Building, 5215
Loughboro Road, NW, Washington, DC.    Dr. Alibhai will lead a
comprehensive conversation on how ALL low vision exams and
rehabilitation opportunities are NOT the same.  He will educate us
about the nuts and bolts of what we as consumers have a right to expect
as a standard of care in a low vision rehabilitation team.  There is
Free garage parking adjacent to the Medical building.  For More
Information call:  202-364-7602

Janet Morrison, Program Director
Aging Eye & Macular Degeneration Networks
Prevention of Blindness Society of Metropolitan Washington
www.youreyes.org - 202-234-1010

Please share this e-mail with your colleagues, clients and
all community residents of the District of Columbia.

FYI.......The additional information below is excerpts from a Low
Vision Month Announcement from US Department of Health & Human Services 
National Eye Institute at National Institutes of Health.

" Low vision means that even with regular glasses, contact lenses,
medicine, or surgery, people find everyday tasks difficult to do.
Reading the mail, shopping, cooking,and writing can seem challenging.
The chief causes of vision loss in
older people are age-related macular degeneration, diabetic
retinopathy, cataract, and glaucoma. Among younger Americans, low
vision is most often caused by inherited eye conditions, infectious and
autoimmune eye disease, or trauma. A 2012 report cosponsored by the
National Institutes of Health estimates that 2.9 million Americans are
living with low vision. The number is projected to increase 72 percent
by 2030 when the last of the baby boomers turn 65. Most people with low
vision are 65 years old or older.  "I encourage anyone with low vision
to seek guidance about vision rehabilitation from a low vision
specialist," said NEI Director Paul A. Sieving, M.D., Ph.D.  "For many
people, vision rehabilitation can improve daily living and overall
quality of life."










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