title: Functional visual problems: training home care aides to identify early signs.
abstract: Home care aids are a primary source of direct care to frail elders, for whom vision loss is a key factor in their declining health. Together, a vision rehabilitation service and a home care aid service agency developed a training program to increase aides' awareness and sensitivity to the issues of visual impairment and to develop a referral system for appropriate eye care and vision rehabilitative services for their clients.
authors.affiliation: Lighthouse, Inc., Staten Island, NY, USA.
authors.forename: K E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Phillips
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Russello
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bonesi
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Garcon
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001364:Awareness; D003479:Curriculum / Q000592:standards; D016330:Frail Elderly; D015577:Geriatric Assessment; D018576:Home Health Aides / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011788:Quality of Life; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000534:rehabilitation