Assisting low-vision patients in Japan

1. Assisting low-vision patients in sitting down and in properly placing their heads for a slit-lamp examination is fundamental in low-vision patient care. 2. Ideally, chairs and other furniture in rooms used by low-vision should not be easily moved. Movable chairs are not stable, and thus could be dangerous, especially to people with low vision. Also, it is extremely important that objects are always placed at the same locations. 3. The staff should experience the difficulties encountered by low-vision patients by undergoing some of the same examinations that these patients undergo, and by walking while wearing some sort of vision reducer.