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Uncorrectable vision loss due to macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, etc., is a critical diagnosis resulting in individuals facing changes in their daily lives resulting in safety and independent travel challenges. Ophthalmologists and optometrists face limitations to refer patients for specialty low vision rehabilitation services several miles away from partially sighted individuals who live in rural areas. Low vision TeleEye rehabilitation services were developed in 2012 and enable a low vision specialty optometrist or ophthalmologist to provide basic low vision TeleEye rehabilitation services as early as possible to initial diagnosis. The telehealth evaluation can be followed with therapy and training with a low vision therapist. Increasing access of low vision rehabilitative specialty services utilizing telehealth prevents further delay in beginning low vision services due to travel restrictions, accommodates health and safety issues, and is important to prevent a potential decline in functional ability over time. Low vision TeleEye rehabilitation evaluations and low vision telehealth therapy and training sessions is a practical, time, and cost-saving alternative option to traditional in-person consultations with a low vision optometrist and therapist.
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Ihrig, C. (2023). Low Vision TeleEye Rehabilitation. In: Yogesan, K., Goldschmidt, L., Cuadros, J., Ricur, G. (eds) Digital Eye Care and Teleophthalmology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24052-2_6
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