| Macular degeneration devices can provide the | | | | Eye glass lenses can also be outfitted with |
| solution that low vision patients are looking for. | | | | miniature telescopes as well. Functioning a bit like |
| They can include specialized eye glasses, | | | | the bifocal, the telescopes can be placed either on |
| computer programs and other technologies that | | | | top of or behind the eye glass lens, and the |
| help to maximize the existing vision of those living | | | | patient can look through the regular lens to get |
| with macular degeneration symptoms. | | | | the benefits of the eye glass prescription. The |
| This degenerative visual condition usually affects | | | | other choice is to look through the telescopic lens |
| the elderly, although some patients are genetically | | | | when you need ultra magnification in order to do |
| disposed to it as well. The macula, located in the | | | | detail type work such as reading or sewing. |
| central portion of the retina, is where detail vision | | | | For those wishing to use the computer, there are |
| is located. When the macula changes, resulting in | | | | special monitors which will magnify the font size, |
| bleeding, weaknesses or wasting, degeneration of | | | | making it easier for low vision users to work on |
| the macula is the resulting medical condition. It | | | | the computer. There are also software macular |
| often leaves patients with reduced central vision, | | | | degeneration devices that will take sound and |
| and thus often means a reduction in the types of | | | | convert it to text, so that you can speak into the |
| activities that rely on that type of specific detail | | | | computer's microphone and that sound will result |
| vision, such as reading or driving. | | | | in text on the screen. Other programs take text |
| Thus, patients with this type of visual | | | | and turn it into braille documents, so that those |
| degeneration are on the lookout for macular | | | | with no vision can still participate in an online |
| generation devices that will improve their existing | | | | setting. |
| vision. Low vision can sometimes be improved by | | | | Other macular degeneration devices that patients |
| using these aids, and can sometimes make | | | | sometimes find effective are closed circuit |
| possible the activities everyone appreciates, like | | | | televisions. You take a book, open it, and then |
| reading and playing cards. | | | | place it under a camera, which then projects the |
| Bifocal reading glasses can offer an easy solution | | | | image in a larger font and shows it on the |
| to reduced vision. Simple to use, you wear the | | | | television screen, making it bigger and thus easier |
| glasses and can change your field of vision by | | | | to read. |
| looking through a different part of the lens. Thus, | | | | Whether you want to read or use the computer, |
| you can see items both far away and close up, | | | | there are macular degeneration devices that are |
| and you get to choose the vision length depending | | | | suited to many specific visual tasks that you |
| on your immediate viewing needs by using bifocal | | | | might want to explore if you have low vision. |
| reading glasses. | | | | |