What is the impact of macular degeneration?
In personal terms, vision is the most important of the five senses: it links us most intimately to the world. Vision allows one to see a new grandchild, read a letter from a friend, scan a computer screen or navigate through traffic. At the beginning stage, macular degeneration, alone, does not result in complete loss of sight and most people continue to have some useful vision and are able to take care of themselves. As the disease advances, it is devastating, robbing people of their independence and their ability to function well in everyday life. Dreams and hopes of their later years vanish — lives are not the same! The Macula Vision Research Foundation is hopeful that its support of pioneering vision research will find the cause, prevention, treatment, and cure for macular degeneration. (Back to top.
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