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Volume 100 • Special Supplement
Box 3.
Community resources
and linkages
A 68-year-old retired widow, who has been legally blind for the past three years due to diabetic retinopathy, lives in her own home with a male friend in the suburb of a major city. Three years after her first call to her state services for the blind, she was visited by a rehabilitation counselor. While she continues to be on a waiting list to receive counseling, daily living skills training, and orientation and mobility services, she and her partner explain her increasingly more pressing needs to her endocrinologist, internist, ophthalmologist, diabetic nurse, and even emergency room physicians and nurses. Her diabetic nurse teaches the woman how to use adaptive devices for measuring her glucose levels and preparing her daily insulin injections. The diabetic nurse also links her with an independent living center, a countywide private rehabilitation center for the blind, a support group, and a consumer organization.
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