Macular Degeneration and Accessibility in the Kitchen - with Occupational Therapist Beth Daisy

Low Vision Occupational Therapist from Future In Sight, Beth Daisy, discusses the needs and challenges of modifying a kitchen for people with low vision from macular degeneration with AMDF Founder and President, Chip Goehring.

Topics covered include:

00:00 Introduction
00:46 How Macular Degeneration affects vision.
02:18 Vision loss and kitchen concerns
04:28 How a low vision assessment is done
07:21 Maintaining cooking and kitchen skills with vision loss from macular degeneration
08:50 Low vision tools and tips for the kitchen, and
15:43 Grief, vision loss, and making changes.

Beth demonstrates modifications such as bump dots, high contrast measuring tools, high contrast cutting boards, cut-resistant gloves, and talking labels to the founder of The American Macular Degeneration Foundation.