The holiday season is often a time of more stress than at other times of the year. It can be especially difficult if you have recently been diagnosed with AMD or your AMD has progressed causing vision impairments. Sue has written about ways to help deal with this stress.
Part 2 Dealing with the Emotional Reaction to Vision Loss
Gifts for those with low vision
Here are some ideas to reduce the stress of buying for those with low vision including for YOU!
- You can do a Google search for “gifts for those with low vision” and find LOTS of ideas!
- Search amazon.com (or the version for your country) for “low vision” and you’ll find a lot of ideas there, too.
- Go to pinterest.com and search for “gifts low vision”. Great ideas there.
- Put together a gift basket of related items such as kitchen items: big letter measuring cups & spoons, bump dots to put on controls of stove and microwave, a cookbook in large print and preferably about eye health eating, talking meat thermometer, liquid level indicator.
- Here’s an article The Hottest Low Vision Gifts with ideas that are handy & healthy, for entertainment and travel, tech and gadgets.
- About technology: even though Cyber Monday has passed, there are quite a few devices that are still on sale. For example, an Amazon Echo Dot which is normally $49.99 is on sale for $29.99! There are also devices and systems on sale to make your home a “smart home” to help you deal with some of the problems of low vision. Here’s an article Best Cyber Monday 2018 smart-home deals still available: Nest thermostat for $139, Echo Dot for $30, Ring, Philips Hue and more.
- Here’s a gift guide from 2017 with ideas that are still available.
- Give your time. Do you know someone who lives alone and has difficulty getting around or doing some things for themselves? How about making up a packet of ‘coupons’ for them for things like rides where they want and need to go, help with their housework or repair work, cooking a meal, running errands, mow the lawn, work in the garden, help with their electronics, or any other things where you will be giving them YOUR TIME. You can make the coupons by hand or find ones to download and print.
Do you have ideas for gifts for those with low vision? Share them in the ‘reply to’ box on this page or send them to me at light2sight5153@gmail.com.