Gardening when you have sight loss

Gardening when you have sight loss

For National Gardening Week (2nd to 8th May 2022), here’s a reminder that Thrive’s ‘Carry on Gardening’ website has lots of tips and advice on gardening when you have sight loss. Topics covered include pruning, weeding, planting and watering....
Eccentric Viewing Training

Eccentric Viewing Training

Eccentric viewing is a technique for using your remaining vision so you can keep doing the things you love. Discover how, with the new online training from the Macular Society. ...
Patients with macular degeneration wanted to help research

Patients with macular degeneration wanted to help research

The Macular Society is looking for patients with wet and dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD) to take part in two separate research studies. To find out more about the two studies, and how you can get involved, click here, where you can also find out about other...
Research study on the impact of Charles Bonnet Syndrome (visual hallucinations)

Visual Hallucinations and Sight Loss

Charles Bonnet syndrome causes a person whose vision has started to deteriorate to see things that aren’t real (hallucinations). The hallucinations may be simple patterns, or detailed images of events, people or places. They’re only visual and don’t...
Advice for people who are waiting for cataract surgery

Advice for people who are waiting for cataract surgery

Due to the ongoing Coronavirus situation many people across South Wales and the UK as a whole are facing long delays in patients waiting for Cataract surgery. Please be reassured that a delay in surgery for cataracts does not put your sight at risk...
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