247Experience of Health and Social Care Professionals Attending the National Frailty Education Programme

Abstract

The 1981 Mini-White House Conference on Vision and Aging was organized and planned as a "working" meeting. A steering committee of cosponsors reviewed proceedings from previously held national meetings on aging, blindness, low vision, and sensory function and developed eight working groups around the salient issues identified in these previous meetings. The groups were: older workers with limited vision; expanding learning opportunities and media for vision and aging; advances in diagnosis and treatment; independence in community living and transportation; low vision; models for rehabilitation and their application to blindness centers, senior centers, health care agencies, and nursing homes; and advanced technology in vision and aging. Participants consolidated their recommendations under six areas; this document summarizes those consolidated reports. Recommendations were prepared in three areas of direct interest to consumers: public education; rehabilitation and treatment; and low vision and public policy. Recommendations in three additional areas are essential to using existing knowledge and experience to implement the recommendations: professional education and professions; research; and financing and legislation. The recommendations are outlined, and a bibliography is included. (EZ) (AgeLine Database, copyright 1990 EBSCO Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved)