Coping with vision loss : understanding the psychological, social, and spiritual effects /

More than one million people in the United States are fully blind or legally blind, suffering impairments from retinal and macular degeneration to eye loss. And as America with Baby Boomers and beyond ages, the numbers of legally blind will double. In this work where the authors are assisted by a bl...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Langdell, Cheri Colby
Autres auteurs: Langdell, Tim
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, ©2011.
Sujets:
Vision disorders > Psychological aspects.
Blindness.
Medicine in literature.
Adaptability (Psychology)
Spirituality.
Blindness > psychology
Adaptation, Psychological
Medicine in Literature
Spirituality
Blindness
Troubles de la vision > Aspect psychologique.
Cécité.
Médecine dans la littérature.
Adaptation (Psychologie)
Spiritualité.
blindness.
MEDICAL > Ophthalmology.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Vision.
Medicine in literature
Vision disorders > Psychological aspects
Blindheit.
Psychologie.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:More than one million people in the United States are fully blind or legally blind, suffering impairments from retinal and macular degeneration to eye loss. And as America with Baby Boomers and beyond ages, the numbers of legally blind will double. In this work where the authors are assisted by a blind executive, readers are taken into the world of the legally and fully blind, to understand the practical challenges that creates for the person experiencing vision loss, and also the family members and friends of that person. And the authors, through interviews with experts across fields, as well.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (x, 180 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-174) and index.
ISBN:9780313346651
0313346658

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