Macular Degeneration: The Complete Guide to Saving and Maximizing Your Sight

by Lylas G. Mogk, Marja Mogk

15.5 million Americans have age-related macular degeneration.
The disease will strike 200,000 more people this year.
It is the most prevalent cause of vision loss in the western world.
And most people have never heard of it . . . until now.

Dr. Lylas Mogk, the founding director of the Visual Rehabilitation and Research Center of Michigan and a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology's Low-Vision Rehabilitation Committee, has a unique professional and personal understanding of macular degeneration. A doctor and loving daughter of a parent with this frightening though manageable condition, Mogk here explains the ailment and how to take steps to limit its effect on your life. Reassuring and comprehensive--complete with illuminating first-person stories of people with ARMD--Macular Degeneration will help you or someone you love with the newest information on

- Reducing your risk factors
- Experimental treatments and research
- Coping with depression and frustration
- Visual rehabilitation to help you read better, see better, and live independently
- What families and friends can do to help
- Eye-healthy recipes that could help save your eyes

Plus a special appendix listing national vision and self-help organizations to contact for information and support!

Genres: Health

416 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

Reviews

[Peggy · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a great resource! This book is full of information - from telling what Macular Degeneration is to practical ideas on how to live with it. As the wife of a man who has AMD, this was exactly what I needed to help me understand some of what he is going through. I have gotten many ideas on ways to make his life easier. Included in the book's appendixes is information on groups and companies that help or make things for people with low vision. My only complaint is that the book is 10 years old. Even so, it still is proving to be extremely useful, and I would recommend it to anyone who has (or knows someone who has) Age-related Macular Degeneration.

[David Vanness · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hoping my reading will help my father. It sure has. It has been a very valuable resource of information. Until one learns how ones limited vision is actually hampering ones life it is imposible to be able to understand and help those with Macular Dengeneration. One of the most valuable Library Sale books I found.

[Nancy Richards-Eisener · Rating 4 out of 5]

A wonderful resource for those with ARMD in their families.

[Jessie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is not actually for those with macular degeneration who wear eyeglasses, but more for those with low vision, which is why eyeglasses, as a solution, was not mentioned in this book. That puzzled me at first, until I got all the way to page 310 where I learned what "low vision" is as opposed to macular degeneration, per se. Low vision is when vision is very limited, often called legally blind, for instance, where driving privileges are revoked.

Stated on page 310: "We're used to having just one pair of glasses to adjust our vision. Bifocals and trifocals, for examples are designed as an all-in-one solutions... When you have low vision, though, you need much stronger magnification than a typical pair of bifocals will give you. Stronger lenses, though, do not come as all-in-one solutions."

Eyeglasses is an all-in-one solution. So, if you want to learn about macular degeneration and you wear eyeglasses, this is not the book. If you truly have "low vision" and need something much stronger than glasses, where you might also benefit from learning braille, rearranging you home to accommodate you, etc., this is the book.

That being said, I did learn a lot: the book is an easy read, well-written, interesting and the author(s) has a nice voice. Very good book. But still, I wanted to know more about macular degeneration, which is why I bought this book in the first place. In that respect the title is misleading.

[Phil Calandra · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a comprehensive overview of the diagnosis and treatment protocols of macular degeneration which presents a unique professional and personal understanding of people with AMD. The author is a physician who has a family history of AMD. The only caveat is that this book was re-published in 2010 and there may be some updated treatments that the reader may want to explore; however, I would highly recommend this book.

[Margaret Fast · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5