Category Archives: Blind
Internet and Disability in the USA
Inequality and the Internet: Why Some Remain Offline
Published: August 22, 2013
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Your otherwise excellent article about the digital divide (“Most of U.S. Is Wired, but Millions Aren’t Plugged In,” Business Day, Aug. 19) missed an opportunity to discuss the significant digital divide between people with disabilities and those not (yet) disabled.
Woman who ate catfood after care cuts now to get earlier meal
Suffers hypoglycaemia attacks due to dipping sugar levels causing her to pass out
A BLIND pensioner who claimed she begged strangers in the street to cook her food when her care visits were reduced is relieved her meal times have now been changed.
Jan Milne, a disabled diabetic, said she suffers hypoglycaemia attacks due to dipping sugar levels causing her to pass out.
The 71-year-old widow from Dormanstown, Redcar, receives daily meals when carers visited at 8am, noon, and then 8.30pm. From Monday, the last call out will be replaced with a tea time dish at 5.30pm.
Carers warned of blind spot for dementia sufferers
Carers warned of blind spot for dementia victims
PEOPLE with dementia may also suffer sight loss that goes undetected because they are unable to communicate that something is wrong, campaigners have warned.
Alzheimer Scotland and the Royal National Institute for Blind People Scotland said carers and health workers may attribute any problems to the mental condition of dementia patients rather than putting it down to sight loss.
The charities are launching a new booklet – Dementia and Sight Loss – to try to tackle the problem.
The new advice booklet explains how to detect the first signs that something may be wrong with a patient’s sight.
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