AIM: As a first step in developing an International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) Core Set for adults with vision loss, this systematic review sought to identify the researchers' perspective by identifying the most often used outcome measures and research topics obtained from studies on adults with vision loss. METHODS:...
INTRODUCTION: Stepping accuracy, speed, and stability are lower in older compared to young adults. Lower stepping performance in older adults may be due to larger accuracy-speed-stability trade-offs because of reduced ability to simultaneously fulfill these task-level goals. Our goal was to evaluate whether trade-offs are larger in older compared t...
status: published
The World Health Organization created the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) to provide a common framework to understand and describe functioning and disability. To make the ICF more applicable for everyday use, an ICF core set can be developed. We are going to reduce the entire ICF of 1400 categories to essent...
10.1167/iovs.62.4.17 / INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE / 62 / 4
10.1167/tvst.9.13.12 / TRANSLATIONAL VISION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY / 9 / 13
BACKGROUND: Age-related conditions such as glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and cataract have become the major cause of visual impairment and blindness in high-income countries. The aim of the current study is to investigate the prevalence of these eye diseases in a cohort of self-proclaimed healthy elderly and thus...
Published in The British journal of ophthalmology
To assess prevalence and causes of vision loss in Central and South Asia. A systematic review of medical literature assessed the prevalence of blindness (presenting visual acuity
Published in The British journal of ophthalmology
To assess prevalence and causes of vision impairment in South-east Asia and Oceania regions from 1990 to 2015 and to forecast the figures for 2020. Based on a systematic review of medical literature, prevalence of blindness (presenting visual acuity (PVA) N5 or N8 in the presence of normal vision) were estimated for 1990, 2010, 2015 and 2020. The a...
Background: Although walking without vision seems to carry a high cognitive cost, few studies have measured the cognitive load involved in this activity in blind people. The aim of this study was to assess the cognitive load of walking in blind people, using gait analysis, a dual task paradigm and a subjective assessment of cognitive load. Methods:...
