Low vision telerehabilitation aided veterans’ access to care during pandemic

At-home telerehabilitation during the COVID-19 pandemic increased access to optometry services for veterans with low vision ocular pathology, according to a study.
Cancellation of in-person, low vision services at the Veterans Affairs Western New York Healthcare System in Buffalo, New York (Buffalo VA) and all low vision telehealth services at community-based outpatient centers (CBOCs) and rural VAs prompted “a new challenge to ‘think outside the box’ and ‘work outside comfort zones’ ... to modify low vision ocular rehabilitation clinical video telehealth (CVT)

At-home telerehabilitation during the COVID-19 pandemic increased access to optometry services for veterans with low vision ocular pathology, according to a study.
Cancellation of in-person, low vision services at the Veterans Affairs Western New York Healthcare System in Buffalo, New York (Buffalo VA) and all low vision telehealth services at community-based outpatient centers (CBOCs) and rural VAs prompted “a new challenge to ‘think outside the box’ and ‘work outside comfort zones’ … to modify low vision ocular rehabilitation clinical video telehealth (CVT)