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The task of providing comprehensive, multi-disciplinary low vision rehabilitation care across the lifespan is a challenge for clinicians and services providers. This workshop presents one successful model of treating the whole person from initial referral, clinical assessment, rehabilitation interventions, quality of life and community resources. Caring for the needs of patients with permanent reduction in vision is not a simple process. Complicating factors include a vast array of life s activities that are no longer possible to perform independently including reading, digital communication, travel, cooking, financial management, crafts and recreation. Attendant with difficulties in these activities of daily living are emotion disruptions. A team approach utilizing the skills of many different professionals has proven effective in the Envision program in Wichita, Kansas. Objectives: 1. Describe the different low vision rehabilitation models and care delivery systems. 2. Recognize the multi-disciplinary nature of professionals involved in patients' continuum of care. 3. Recognize practice gaps in current standards of care. |
