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The following is an overview of books with information on AMD. For your convenience we have included a brief summary of each resource.
- Living Well with Macular Degeneration: Practical Tips and Essential Information
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This guide offers the up–to–date information, advice and support to the growing number of people with age–related macular degeneration.
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- Macular Degeneration: The Complete Guide to Saving and Maximizing Your Sight
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From the Publisher: Dr. Lylas Mogk, the founding director of the Visual Rehabilitation and Research Center of Michigan and a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s Low–Vision Rehabilitation Committee, has a unique professional and personal understanding of macular degeneration. A doctor and loving daughter of a parent with this frightening though manageable condition, Mogk here explains the ailment and how to take steps to limit its effect on your life. Reassuring and comprehensive — complete with illuminating first–person stories of people with ARMD — Macular Degeneration will help you or someone you love with the newest information on:
- Reducing your risk factors
- Experimental treatments and research
- Coping with depression and frustration
- Visual rehabilitation to help you read better, see better, and live independently
- What families and friends can do to help
- Eye–healthy recipes that could help save your eyes
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- Macular Degeneration: The Latest Scientific Discoveries and Treatments for Preserving Your Sight
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From the Publisher: “If you are among the 13 million Americans who suffer from age–related macular degeneration (ARMD), or if you care for someone who does, this important book offers realistic hope and practical advice based on the latest medical research and the wisdom of personal experience.
Caregivers and loved ones will gain insight into your changing vision needs. And by knowing the facts about macular degeneration, you will make health–care decisions more wisely and confidently. The coping tips — from modifying your computer screen to compensate for vision problems to customizing your home environment and using low–vision tools for increased safety and independence — will help you maintain the lifestyle you want while managing the challenges of having ARMD.”
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- Overcoming Macular Degeneration: A Guide to Seeing Beyond the Clouds
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From the Publisher: “Each year, more than 400,000 Americans are diagnosed with macular degeneration, an age-related, progressive eye disease that immediately raises a fear of total blindness. The good news is: You Are Not Going Blind. However, you are dealing with a disease that causes serious visual impairment — an inconvenience the author, Dr. Yale Solomon, has become personally familiar with since he was diagnosed in 1990. Now this respected ophthalmologist offers a compassionate and understanding look at both the medical and human side of macular degeneration and ways to meet the challenge of its impact on everyday life.”
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- Twilight: Losing Sight, Gaining Insight
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From the Publisher: “In 1992, when Henry Grunwald missed a glass into which he was pouring water, he assumed that he needed new eyeglasses, not that the incident was a harbinger of darker times. But in fact Grunwald was entering the early stages of macular degeneration — a gradual loss of sight that affects almost 15 million Americans yet remains poorly understood and is, so far, incurable. Now, in Twilight, Grunwald chronicles his experience of disability: the clouding of his sight, and the daily struggle to overcome its physical and psychological implications; the discovery of what medicine can and cannot do to restore sight; his compulsion to understand how the eye works, its evolution, and its symbolic meaning in culture and art… This is a story not merely about seeing but about living; not merely about losing sight but about gaining insight.”
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