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Appendix B: Annotated Bibliography
Appendix B: Annotated Bibliography
Pages 54-70
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low vision and optical aids; and (5) general texts on vision and aging.
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Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Reports estunates on refraction status, maximum corrected visual acuity, and eye motility defects among the civilian non~nstitutionalized population in the United States.
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Summarizes data on visual capabilities such as acuity, contrast sensitivity, and temporal resolution as a function of age. AGE CHANGES IN HIGlIER-I`EVEL PERCEPTUAL PROCESSES Kline, D
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Describes these modem and the distinctions drawn between peripheral and central perceptual processes. Reviews the results of experunents demonstrating that older adults are slower than young adults in more than one stage of visual information processing.
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Washington, D.C.: National Commission for Employment Policy Guide to various aspects of older worker employment. Includes discussions on who the older worker is, work arrangements for older workers, policies affecting older workers, and initiatives in the employment sector to help older workers find and retain jobs.
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Several chapters consider issues relevant to the older worker's employment status. Includes a limited amount of material related specifically to technology and visual impairment ~ the aging.
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Physical redesign of the workstation to accommodate disabilities such as visual impairment is an uncommon practice among the sample companies. 1986 Aging America: Trends and Projections.
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Report of the Committee to Study Scientific Evidence Relevant to Mandatory Age Retirement for Airline Pilots. Provides a comprehensive review of information regarding how advances in age may unpact the ability of airline pilots to perform their jobs safely.
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Findings indicate that practice improves performance in both age groups, but that age differences remain. Suggests that differences between young and old in performance of simple perceptual and cognitive tasks are due to a slower overall rate of information processing.
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Explores people's reactions to different lighting conditions, along dimensions such as discomfort, and discusses the standards, codes, and guides for specification of lighting in different environments. Presents a brief review of the effects of age on visual performance as determined by such basic measures as visual acuity (pp.
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Reports measurements of visual functions such as best corrected visual acuity, color vision, visual field, grating acuity, and contrast sensitivity. The study also explores the relationship between visual functions and social data such as living arrangements and the needs for vision in daily activities.
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Includes a discussion of refraction techniques and visual acuity measurements for both the normally sighted older person and the older patient with low vision. Considers how to prescribe various optical aids to enhance vision for patients with low vision.
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New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. Comprehensive review and excellent reference source of the literature on the psychological and behavioral aspects of aging.
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Discusses, for example, spatial and temporal vision, attention, and pattern recognition. Methodological issues and the unpacts of visual changes on the life of the older person are also explored.
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Viewed in the context of employment, reduced visual function does not necessarily have any effect on job performance, but for some individuals it will. This report reviews what is known about changing visual functions relevant to job performance, and recommends steps that can be taken by the worker and the employer to address changing visual needs.
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