When a person has low vision or a visual impairment they often need a support network that is composed of their family and friends. Most people instinctively agree to support their loved ones, but they may not truly understand the level of support that might be required. The article, Family Functioning and Low Vision: a systematic review, by Jennifer K. Bambara examines the issues faced by individuals with low vision and the family members that choose to support them. People with low vision are faced with learning to live life and complete task with a totally different reality than their visually capable peers. They are forced to question and expand their understanding of concepts and or task they previous thought they learned, such as making
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That emotional tug of war could be directed at the individual with low vision, inwardly at them self or outwardly toward any other individual they may encounter. According to Bambara (2009), “Depending on the type and level of support that is provided, the role that family members play in providing support is likely to cause them strain over time, particularly as they struggle to balance their own needs with the needs of the individual with low vision.” (p. 1) When people agree to be responsible for other’s they often do it from an emotional prospective with little thought to how those additional task will add to their current list of responsibilities for themselves. Additionally, the family members do not realize that as the individual with vision loss will experience the stages of grief, each family member may go through their own stages of grief. The stress of low vision is an important area to explain to all people. We all benefit when we have an understanding of how events can impact our immediate and foreseeable future. Bambara used examples and purposeful language to express the extreme levels of change family members may
That emotional tug of war could be directed at the individual with low vision, inwardly at them self or outwardly toward any other individual they may encounter. According to Bambara (2009), “Depending on the type and level of support that is provided, the role that family members play in providing support is likely to cause them strain over time, particularly as they struggle to balance their own needs with the needs of the individual with low vision.” (p. 1) When people agree to be responsible for other’s they often do it from an emotional prospective with little thought to how those additional task will add to their current list of responsibilities for themselves. Additionally, the family members do not realize that as the individual with vision loss will experience the stages of grief, each family member may go through their own stages of grief. The stress of low vision is an important area to explain to all people. We all benefit when we have an understanding of how events can impact our immediate and foreseeable future. Bambara used examples and purposeful language to express the extreme levels of change family members may