Understanding and navigating health insurance coverage, including benefits for eye and vision care, can be a challenge. To help address this issue, Prevent Blindness has created a new online resource, Health Insurance and Your Eyes. There you can download free fact sheets and information about health insurance, Medicare benefits, the Affordable Care Act, and eye care.
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Vision Loss and Social Security Disability
Decreased vision leads to detrimental, life-altering complications, which often include loss of employment and increased difficulty carrying out everyday activities. If vision loss has negatively impacted your life, you may qualify for Social Security disability payments. There are two ways to file. If you have severe vision loss in both eyes and your vision in [Read More]
The Monster Behind The Door
Fear of the unknown, and of being alone, are the worst of all fears, and, therefore, the biggest challenges in coping with progressive vision loss. Conquering those fears can open doors of opportunities never thought possible. As this month’s International Low Vision Support Group presenter, Dan Roberts, introduces his childhood monster and talks about how [Read More]
Seniors With Wet AMD Now Less Likely to Need Long-Term Care
Researchers have looked at a sample population of senior adults newly diagnosed with wet age-related macular degeneration (exudative, or neovascular, AMD) and found that those who received either Lucentis or Avastin injections* were 19% less likely to be admitted to a long-term care facility during the follow-up period. The reason? The introduction of anti-VEGF therapy [Read More]
U-M Kellogg Eye Center performs first two retinal prosthesis implants in U.S. since FDA approval
Kellogg retina surgeons implant Argus II Retinal Prosthesis, or ‘bionic eye,’ for two patients with end-stage retinitis pigmentosa ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Retina surgeons at the University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center have performed the first – and second – surgeries in the United States to implant an artificial retina, or “bionic eye,” since the U.S. Food and [Read More]