Contents

• WORKING GROUP ON AGING WORKERS AND VISUAL IMPAIRMENT
• COMMITTEE ON VISION
• PREFACE
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• PART 1
  • Introduction
• PART 2
  • The Aging Eye
  • Changing Eyesight: Significance for Daily Living
  • Changes in Lighting
  • Looking at Life Through Cloudy Glasses
  • Clutter
  • Driving
• PART 3
  • In the Workplace
  • Vision Care on the Job
  • A Tale of Two Companies
    • More than Safety Glasses
    • Free Eye Care at a Small Company
    • Job Coding
  • Benefits of Company Vision Care Programs
• PART 4
  • Redesigning the Workplace
  • Coloring the Job
  • Light and Glare
  • On-the-Job Experience, Retraining, and Compensating for Impaired Vision
• PART 5
  • Looking to the Future
  • What Do Companies Want?
  • The Need for More Information
  • What We Do Know from Statistics
  • Driving as a Model for Working
  • Efforts of Private Companies
  • Selected Resources for Vision Care
    • VICTORS: A Resource for Veterans
    • Job Network
    • An Index for Jobs
    • Remaining on the Job in New York City
    • Federally Sponsored Projects
    • Helping the Partially Sighted
    • Optometry Schools
  • Conclusion
• ADDITIONAL READINGS
• 1986 CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS

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