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  • Leisure activities may be indicators:
    • Does the patient like to read or do other visual activities?
    • Do vision problems force the patient to use audiotapes?

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Here's another assessment technique clinicians find useful. Ask about leisure interests, or listen carefully to patient conversation. Reading or other activities that require visual acuity may have changed, suggesting vision as a cause. An avid knitter may have given up knitting. Someone who formerly read every magazine and newspaper may listen to audiotapes or radio or watch TV instead. And the person who uses a magnifying glass, which is NOT considered an example of corrective lenses? What does that tell you?
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