This article reports on a project in 39 counties of rural Missouri to screen and provide low vision devices and rehabilitation services to elderly persons with declining visual acuity. A concomitant goal was to establish low vision resource centers in nursing homes and congregate sites for elderly persons. Two significant results of the project were the high level of interest in and use of the low vision resource centers and the dissemination of information on visual loss to potential clients, the public, and local professionals.
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