By Nick Morrison

This event was very well attended. There were people from the Macular Society to talk to as well as a range of electronic and optical magnifiers with a rep from the company explaining them.

Mr Furze of the Macular Society showed me an ordinary smart phone equipped with a free app which tuned into a handy electronic magnifier.

There was a range of small booklets covering such subjects as:-

• Age-related Macular degeneration and the macular society
• Nutrition and eye health
• Visual hallucinations
• Driving
• Using technology

There are 2 types of macular degeneration , wet and dry. Wet can be treated especially if caught early, dry cannot , all you can do is to retard its getting worse by diet and supplements in some cases.

The prices of the electronic aids on display went from £250 to £2500.

There are people out there who are willing to help.

I have a touch of  the dry  version myself.

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