Development of New Approaches to Rehabilitating Vision Loss in Veterans With Age-Related Macular Degeneration
VA Office of Research and Development
Summary
This study will help develop new methods of rehabilitating Veterans with vision loss due to Age-related macular degeneration.
Description
The purpose of this research study is to develop new and improved methods of helping vision-impaired Veterans see better by using hands as "seeing eyes". This study will focus on Veterans with a common form of eye disease called age-related macular degeneration that affects older individuals.
Eligibility
- Age range
- 50+ years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria: 1. The subject is a Veteran. 2. The subject is 50 years of age. 3. The subject has best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) of 20/40 or worse in each eye, as determined by the standard CNVAMC optometric tests. 4. The subject has visual field deficit of 10O in either eye as determined by the Octopus 900 perimetry (Haag-Streit Diagnostics, Haag-Streit USA, Mason, OH) administered by CNVAMC. (When the deficit/s are binocular, they do not necessarily have to be in binocularly corresponding positions.) 5. The subject has received a formal clinical diagnosis of age-related macular de…
Interventions
- BehavioralStudy-specific rehabilitation (SSR) procedures
Study-specific rehabilitation procedures will systematically manipulated the spatial or temporal synchrony (or coordination) of visual vs. haptic inputs that the subjects receive.
Location
- Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center, Augusta, GAAugusta, Georgia