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FREE COMMUNITY SEMINAR - May 18, 2013
Living Well with Vision Loss: Tools & Techniques for Everyday Life
Join eye experts for informative talks and exhibits to help you manage vision loss from macular degeneration, a common eye disease in older adults. Try out the latest visual aids and technology, learn about new and familiar ways to keep on reading and helpful strategies for getting around with or without a car. Includes an overview of macular degeneration.
Click on the calendar listing below for more information about this program and our other educational programs. Space is limited, so please call 503 494-3700 to register.
We will need the following information when you register: your name, the number of people in your party and contact phone number. Please also choose a morning or afternoon session.
View videotaped presentations from our community seminars on April 6 and April 27.
Participating Exhibitors on May 18
Exhibits will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Boundless Assistive Technology
Multnomah County Aging & Disability Services
National Federation of the Blind/Rose City Chapter
Oregon Commission for the Blind
Oregon Department of Transportation/DMV
Portland Art Museum Tours for the Visually Impaired
Portland Veterans Administration
What's New at the Macular Degeneration Center?
Read the latest issue of Insight, the newsletter of the Macular Degeneration Center.
Wet AMD: Learn about today's treatments and tomorrow's possibilities, including a new gene therapy trial at Casey Eye Institute.
New AMD genes discovered: Casey is part of global network making significant finding
Reading with vision loss: Are you a candidate for e-book devices?
