Prevent Blindness names February as AMD and Low Vision Awareness Month

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Prevent Blindness provides free educational resources to raise awareness about AMD and low vision, impacting patients and their care partners.
Nearly 19.83 million Americans are affected by AMD, a condition impairing central vision and causing low vision.
The AMD GuideMe app offers personalized guidance and resources to help patients manage AMD and preserve sight.
Informative videos and websites support individuals with low vision, offering directories and resources for vision rehabilitation.

The company offers year-round educational services on the conditions, using this month, in particular, to guide patients to needed resources.

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Prevent Blindness again has declared February as Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) and Low Vision Awareness month. The nation’s leading eye health and safety nonprofit organization offers a variety of free educational resources year-round, including expert-approved fact sheets, social media graphics in English and Spanish and dedicated web pages to help educate the public, patients and their partners and health professionals.

"The impact of retinal eye diseases, such as AMD, and low vision affects not only patients but their care partners and families as well," Jeff Todd, president and CEO of Prevent Blindness, said. "By providing trusted informative resources that help save sight from advancing eye disease and conditions like AMD, and by helping to connect patients to eyecare, and assisting those who are already experiencing vision loss, we continue our essential 117-year mission to serve as the patient's partner in eye health."

In a recent study from 2019, data from the CDC’s Vision and Eye Health Surveillance System (VEHSS) estimated that 19.83 million Americans were living with AMD. AMD is an eye disease that impairs central vision and can cause low vision.

With Prevent Blindness, patients and care partners can also create and download a free guide using the Prevent Blindness AMD GuideMe app. The app gives a customized overview of AMD, along with a tailored resource list and suggested steps to help save sight from the condition.

The company also has several informative videos on its YouTube channel, including videos focused on treatments for other eye conditions like Geographic Atrophy (GA). The company also has several websites, such as “Living With Low Vision,” which provides a variety of content from low vision resource directories to a listing of Vision Rehabilitation Resources of Eyecare professionals.

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Prevent Blindness Declares February as Age-related Macular Degeneration and Low Vision Awareness Month to Educate Public on the Eye Disease and Available Support Programs. Yahoo! Finance. Accessed February 3, 2025. Prevent Blindness Declares February as Age-related Macular Degeneration and Low Vision Awareness Month to Educate Public on the Eye Disease and Available Support Programs