Health tips: Quality magnifiers can help sharpen low vision
When a patient is diagnosed with low vision, this means vision impairment that is not correctable by standard glasses, contact lenses, medicine or surgery. This vision loss can affect an individual�s independence and quality of life, but it doesn�t have to. There are many tools available for these individuals to remain independent and continue to do things they enjoy � like reading, writing, crocheting, etc. Many people with low vision don�t know about the resources that are available to them. Low vision aids keep getting better each year with newer technology. Quality low vision aids can only be purchased through low vision specialists and dealers. Magnifiers purchased from the local drugstore are meant for people with healthy eyes and good vision; these magnifiers only have a minimal amount of the power that low vision magnifiers provide. A hand-held low vision magnifier comes with or without lights, with or without a base and in many different power...