Vision Welfare: Inter-Professional Co-operation or Fragmentation?

Often professional language and professional practices create communication barriers which adversely affect patient care in low vision services. The use of a common, non-technical information medium owned by the patient may be an effective way of holding relevant information for all professionals in a case. arriera to Effective Communication I While there is no doubt that some health states and certain aspects of life such as ageing present increased risk factors for the occurrence of impaired vision, it is important that those who are visually impaired are not labelled in this way. Labelling of a patient &dquo;type&dquo; in health care is disappointingly almost as prevalent as the ques