Naslov
Access to rehabilitation services for adults with late onset visual impairment

Autori
Mašić, Valentina ; Femec, Luka ; Bilić-Prcić, Ante

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Book of Abstracts The 9th International Conference of the Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences University of Zagreb Zagreb, Croatia, 17 – 19 May, 2017. / Sekušak Galešev, Snježana ; Jeđud Borić, Ivana ; Hržica, Gordana ; Bradarić Jončić, Sandra ; Jandrić Nišević, Anita ; Kuvač Kraljević, Jelena ; Martinec, Renata ; Ricijaš, Neven ; Wagner Jakab, Ana (ur.). - Zagreb : Edukacijsko-rehabilitacijski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, 2017, 187-188

ISBN
978-953-6418-87-9

Skup
9th International Conference of the Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Zagreb ERFCON 2017

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 17.05.2017. - 19.05.2017

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
late onset visual impairment, access to rehabilitation services, gradual vision loss

Sažetak
Rehabilitation services improve the quality of life of people with visual impairment. Therefore, urgent and prompt rehabilitation intervention is important in helping adult people adapt to vision loss faster, especially those with late onset visual impairment. The goal of this research is to determine differences in the variable access to rehabilitation services after vision loss (occurrence of a moderate or severe visual impairment including blindness) between groups on variables gradual vision loss, age of people when vision loss occurred and gender. Differences in the variable gradual vision loss between groups on variable access to rehabilitation services were also tested. Information on adult people with visual impairment (late onset), who were active users of rehabilitation services from 2011 to 2016, was gathered (N= 42, 18F, 24M) from secondary data sources in Centre for Education and Training "Vinko Bek". Results demonstrated statistically significant differences in the variable access to rehabilitation services between groups who gradually lost their vision within 15 years from the initial symptoms and those who were losing it in a period longer than 15 years, as well as groups whose vision loss occurred before 20 and after the age of 20, but no differences between genders. Groups of accessing rehabilitation services up to 5 years, between 6 and 10 and up to 10 years, differ to the group of those which accessed rehabilitation services after 10 years on the variable gradual vision loss. The results indicate critical groups of people with visual impairment not receiving prompt rehabilitation services in order to prevent lowered quality of life. As the prevalence of visual impairment with age increases, so does the issue of quality of life for people with late onset visual impairment. Further research is necessary in determining factors related to rehabilitation service access for adults with late onset visual impairment.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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