Premier Care Homecare recognizes that low vision interferes with a patient's ability to perform Activities of Daily Living (ADLs). Low vision also increase the risks for falls and injury at home, medication errors, mobility deficits, isolation, and unnecessary dependence on others.
As a home health care provider serving our elderly populations, offering a program that speaks directly to these problems is important to us. And so, in 2010 we launched our Low Vision Rehabilitation Program.
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Which patients could benefit from the low vision program?
Patients with the following conditions should be evaluated:
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Program Services
Comprehensive assessment evaluates how vision can be enhanced
Comprehensive assessment evaluates how vision can be enhanced
- Optical and other low vision aids and assistive device training
- Assistance in creating a "Low Vision Friendly living environment
- Skilled nursing for medication management/compliance
- Physical therapy for Balance, Gait Training, and Fall Prevention
- Occupational therapy to assist with ADL retraining
Program Goals
The program is NOT a means to regain lost vision nor does it rest solely on adaptive equipment. Instead, it includes teaching strategies that help clients compensate for low vision by:
The program is NOT a means to regain lost vision nor does it rest solely on adaptive equipment. Instead, it includes teaching strategies that help clients compensate for low vision by:
- Maximizing the use of senses (auditory, olfactory, tactile, kinesthetics)
- Developing strategies for written communication
- Educating in environmental modification
- Recommending adaptive devices to improve visual functioning
- Equipping patients with the skills, visual aides, and confidence to function as independently as possible
- Reducing limitations that result from loss of vision