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Elder Care: A Resource for Interprofessional Providers: Aids for Patients with Low Vision
Part of the Elder Care: A Resource for Interprofessional Providers collection. |
Elder Care: A Resource for Interprofessional Providers: Aids for Patients with Low Vision
University of Arizona College of Medicine
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Product ID: 20615 |
Abstract:
Aids for Patients with Low Vision is one of a continuing series of practical, evidence based, Provider Fact Sheets which summarize key geriatric topics and provide clinically useful assessments and interventions. Initially developed for remote, rural clinical sites, they are useful for students and health care professionals from many fields and across a very broad range of health care settings.
Estimated time to complete:
30 minutes
URL where the product can be viewed:
Educational objectives:
Objectives:
- Name five vision aids for people with impaired vision
- List a principal advantage and disadvantage of each of those five vision aids
- State whether or not most insurance plans provide coverage for low-vision aids.
Additional information/Special implementation requirements or guidelines:
Subscribers to POGOe are free to reprint Elder Care on their own stationery or in other publications without obtaining specific permission, so long as
(1) content is not changed,
(2) no one is charged a fee to use or read the publication,
(3) authors and their affiliated institutions are noted without change, and
(4) the reprint includes the following statement: “Reprinted courtesy of the Arizona Reynolds Program of Applied Geriatrics and the Arizona Geriatric Education Center."
(1) content is not changed,
(2) no one is charged a fee to use or read the publication,
(3) authors and their affiliated institutions are noted without change, and
(4) the reprint includes the following statement: “Reprinted courtesy of the Arizona Reynolds Program of Applied Geriatrics and the Arizona Geriatric Education Center."
Publications from, presentations from, and/or citations to this product:
The Elder Care provider sheets are occasionally published in the Arizona Geriatrics Society Journal, which is published twice yearly.
Nelson, D. and Medina-Walpole, A. (2010, December), Elder care provider fact sheets. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 58(12), 2414-2415. Also available online.
Date posted:
Mon, 12/07/2009
Date last updated:
Thu, 12/16/2010
CME credits available:
No
Has this product been peer reviewed?:
No
Geriatrics topic areas:
Discipline/specialty:
ACGME competency checklist:
Learning resource types:
Intended learner audience:
Minimum geriatric competencies:
Other Sponsors:
Arizona Center on Aging
Contact person/corresponding author:
Dr. Barry Weiss (bdweiss@email.arizona.edu)
Creative Commons License:
Conflict of Interest Guidelines:
I have NO financial relationships to disclose.
NLM Citation:
Weiss, B. Elder Care: A Resource for Interprofessional Providers: Aids for Patients with Low Vision. POGOe - Portal of Geriatric Online Education; 2009 Available from: http://www.pogoe.org/productid/20615
APA Citation:
Weiss, B. (2009). Elder Care: A Resource for Interprofessional Providers: Aids for Patients with Low Vision. POGOe - Portal of Geriatric Online Education. Retrieved February 05, 2012 from http://www.pogoe.org/productid/20615
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