Functional visual problems: training home care aides to identify early signs.
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.
Phillips
K E
KE
Lighthouse, Inc., Staten Island, NY, USA.
Russello
S M
SM
Bonesi
J
J
Garcon
R
R
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