Sight Loss - The Essential Guide - Softcover

Sight loss affects 1.8 million people in the UK. This practical guide explains the causes of sight loss and focus on help and practical tips to make every day life easier. Sight Loss: The Essential Guide follows RNIB guidelines on font and layout to make it accessible for partially sighted people but it will also contain helpful advice for carers and families of partially sighted or blind people. Age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, cataracts and diabetes-related eye disease will all be covered in detail, the causes, detection, treatment and advice for carers will be explained in an easy-to-understand way. The book will also provide information on which eyesight professionals you will meet, how to cope emotionally and where to get support, reassuring the reader of what to expect during, what can be, a problematic and confusing time. Mobility, adapting your home and financial help will be covered making this practical guide invaluable for anyone who is concerned about their own, or a family member's, sight loss. Authors: Antonia Chitty and Victoria Dawson

Antonia Chitty is an experienced author and journalist. Antonia has worked in the field of visual impairment and trained as an optometrist. She worked on sight loss prevention for RNIB before becoming a journalist writing health features for Which? magazine. She now writes on health, business and parenting. Victoria dawson is a qualified teacher who has worked with children with special needs and their families for the last 10 years. She has worked with children and young adults with visual impairments. She holds a Post graduate diploma in Special and Inclusive Education, and has a special interest in sleep difficulties.