Prevalence of remediable disability due to low vision among institutionalised elderly people.
- Winter, L.J. de
- Hoyng, C.B.
- Froeling, P.G.A.M.
- Meulendijks, C.F.M.
- Wilt, G.J. van der
DOIAbstract
Item does not contain fulltextBACKGROUND: Prevalence of remediable visual disability among institutionalised elderly people, resulting from inappropriate use or non-use of low-vision aids, is reported to be high, but largely rests on anecdotal evidence. OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence of binocular low vision and underlying eye diseases among institutionalised elderly people in a Dutch urban population and the size of remediable visual disability as the result of inappropriately corrected low vision. METHODS: The design was a cross-sectional survey of 284 subjects with low vision (corrected binocular vision <0.4) in nursing homes and homes for the elderly in the Netherlands. RESULTS: 284 of 610 eligible residents were examined. The pre...
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