In-home Independent Living Hacks for the Visually Impaired
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- čas přidán 17. 07. 2020
- Just a few hacks I use at home to make my life easier as a person with low vision! Don't forget to subscribe for more insight into life with vision impairment and to learn how you can be more inclusive!
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I'm slowly becoming blind and it's interesting to see that I've been already intuitively following every tip you expressed in this video, I feel less alone!
It makes me happy to read that!
I am visually impaired 58 year old adult with limited vision and I use a white cane.I live at home helping my senior mom,niece,disabled nephew and we have 2 spayed female therapy cats.I am as independent as I can be while living at home,I get help from the cnib and once in a while I get some help from my family,I take the buses and lrt train and now I registered with dats for medical appointments,I have secondary or rebound cataracts in both eyes which makes it harder to do things tgat I enjoy doing,I enjoy reading,adult coloring,fill in crossword puzzles,listening to my favorite music,etc.I do get eye fatigue and headaches so I rest my eyes a lot.I still love my life and I try to keep busy and learning new things etc.
I love and enjoy watching your videos
Thank you so much for sharing!
As the father of a visually impaired child, I cannot thank you enough for this video. I am learning how I can do better for her and you have helped me with that, thank you so very much!
You are very welcome!
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Hello, I’m visually improved myself. I really enjoyed this. I have a question how do visually imperative identified Egyptian pound Bank notes. Do you have markings would it be possible Could you do a video? 4:49
Glad you talked about those things. I need things to be where I will just know they are. You probably know this now, but if not, you can now use your iPhone or tablet as your camera when you join online events.
Something my dad does that I will probably do is get a silicone mat or some sort of grippy surface in a solid color and use that as a surface for pills or placing items that might disappear in busy backgrounds. He uses it daily for medications and im going to use mine for when I put down something small and lose it. I lost a spice packet yesterday because my counter was too busy
I definitely also sometimes do this!
I am also partually sighted with limited vision and I use a white cane with a roller ball tip.I live at home with my family and 2 female spayed therapy cats.
I get help from my family and the cnib foundation and my friends and a o&m specialist.I have some appliences marked and I am in the process of getting my freedom and indepence back after four months of having to rely on my mom,niece and a friend or two to help me to get to my eye appointments and a recent cataract operation on my right eye in early september of this year.
I can cook and bake my meals and desserts that are diabetic friendly meals etc with the help from my mom.
I love and enjoyed watching your video on how to live independently and I can't live in clutter and I know where everything is inside the house.Nothing on the floors or stairs and everything is put in it's proper place.
It is the buses. and the bus routes and bus numbers that I have problems with because the city of edmonton changed everything and I am unsure or nervous about taking the buses in my city
Thank you for watching and thank you so much for sharing your experience!
Yeah, it is so important to make public transportation accessible to people with disabilities! Here in Cairo, it is extremely difficult to navigate public transportation without help.
Well Well well and how do you know that after years and years of denial, right at the edge of my final years above earth, I'm doing in my home exactly the same things as you do in yours. The reason why I am here in the first place is, that I really can't find anything, from my glasses (I usually buy 2 pairs in case I loose one) to my chargers and almost everything in between. And today I succumbed to the idea that as well as adapting my place to old age, my daughter finally convinced me to go a little further and also adapt it for my obvious "other issues" (I'm not prepared yet to call myself handicapped). Maybe in a few years when I really can't fake it anymore.
My solution for the glasses and most important chargers are Air Tags because I use Apple products. I really didn't want to buy them because they are expensive and according to myself a bit to nerdy but now they are becoming increasingly indispensable.
Another solution for falling pills is just to leave them and hope that the vacuum cleaner takes them next time. It's hopeless to even try to find them. Sometimes I do truly archeological finds in that respect. Falling things are a nightmare. It takes me ages to find them and it's not so easy anymore to crawl on all four as it used to be.
Anyways, thank you for this video and I hope to see you again soon.
wow! I admire you. I have never thought of American blind people to be active like you. however, I am legal blind myself.
Hi my name is Lory. I’m not completely blind I can see Perry much what you can but I gotta say your video was totally describing me! The pill thing is the worst bcs sometimes I don’t realize I dropped a pill until my grandaugjters tell me. Luckily the pets haven’t eaten it.Bcsi take pre and post transplant meds. Anyway I loved your video.God Bless you🙏
Coming from another legally blind, this video helps me realise that it is possible to live on my own.
I'm at work and truly surky this helped a ton! It's like a while different world and I really am starting to love it more working with her.
Thanks so much GodBless!
I'm recently visually impaired and it's so nice to meet fellow VIPS. I am learning so much from then. Thank you 🙋
I am losing vjslon and did not glasses glasses until 7. Now I need to fix my mess. Thank you
Great idea with the clear mugs m. Thank You. Take care!
Nice video = Vision Impaired since 2011 - RP - I stopped using glass cups of any kind - I only use disposable cups. cost a bit but I never break cups anymore, its safer, and less dish washing.
just got the word from eye doc last week i am legally blind, (stargardts disease) thank you for this video.
I'm partially sighted (low vision) and I agree on the busyness background is a nightmare to see anything!
I also need to have things particular set-up order.
I also rent(ed) apartments and some have busy counters. There are those temporarily wall/counter top paper that can cover the busyness that helped! I also lay out a solid board or thin cutting board/mat on the counter in specific area to contrast things.
I cannot see clear/transparent cups either, I own transparent glasses but has design on them so I can see whats being poured.
If I drop something on the floor, I an using my flashlight to help me finding it; it works with objects that has thickness, like a pill, a blueberry, etc. , by looking at its high-contrast shadow on the floor that is created by my light source. If the object is a transparent sheet of plastic on the floor, I am trying to find that sheet by its bright reflection of my light.
Happy to see you. I am from India kerala. I also struggling with high myopia. Short sight. My eye power is -18.... 6 years before i surgerird my eyes. Now i can se near things very clearly....
Thank you for sharing! Do you have any idea, or do your doctors know, how some of your site came back six years ago?
Hello I lost sight in one eye in 2019 and have poor vision in other eye it has been a challenge to say the least I'm trying to set my house up better so I know where most rings are thank you for this!
suggestion for funding something small on your floor.....use of flashlight and use it as a scanner let it cast The Beam across the floor as opposed to shining the beam on the floor this will make whatever you dropped stand out as a shadow or actually make it easier to see.....
That's a really good tip! I do that sometimes when I'm looking for something small. The flashlight makes it shine, and bingo!
I agree that Butchie is cute, and is clearly attached to you -- you can see it in his focus on you when you speak to/about him. I applaud you for your creativity, as I have had to rely upon creativity and adaptability all my life.
.I also do almost the same thing at home to make my life easier by doing everything that I can to learn how to use my remaining vision to do my housework,crafts etc.The only problem that I have that I would like to find a better way to get brighter lighting in the basement area,the lght isn't as bright as I want it to be in that area.
I'm dealing with a similar issue with my countertops and need to consider this next time I remodel. As for dropped pills, one of my cats is good at finding them and pointing them out. She started doing this spontaneously 😺. I bet you do could learn to help out 😉.
Thanks for sharing your hacks! Stay strong!
It's so cool that your cat does that! As long as she never tries to swallow them, ahahaha! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for this video! I need to share it with my family! I keep trying to explain they simply cannot keep moving things especially on the floor- my life is one big trip hazard and I envy your ability to be so independent- thanks for sharing
Yeah, if it was my choice also, I need very bright cabinets or countertops. The busy background makes it a little difficult.
I'm totally blind, and I absolutely hate it when someone sighted moves things around and I can't find them!
Thanks so much for sharing. I love what you said about living independently.
Good video. Thank you for sharing.
That's awesome! Loved the thumbnail. LOL. so TRUE. What a cute dog! I agree with the busy backgrounds though. It's so difficult to change those things though.... Great video. 👍👍
Thanks! Love your channel too ;-)
Thanks from the US! Really helpful ideas.
You're very welcome!! :D
I always use Siri for the time I don’t even stress my eyes anymore
Thankyou for sharing the struggles we face in everyday life!
Really enjoyed your video & for giving us a glimpse into your home.
Thanks for watching and commenting :)
This is so helpful! Clear information that we can use to help and to understand our niece with her living independently. Not many life hacks online for visually impaired people. Thank you so much for your video and for being a great role model!
You're welcome!
Good vlog. Thanks for the tips on ways to make navigating around the home less frustrating.
I’m just now starting my search for info like this so I can help my Brother when I can. I’m looking for ways to mark small kitchen appliances for him… Thanks again, and best regards.
Thanks for sharing! I'm glad your brother has you to help him! If he's totally blind, you could consider something like braille stickers to label things - if these are not accessible where you are, you could probably invent your own system of stickers together :-)
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I love your video and I am also partially sighted middle aged female adult and I use a white cane,I live at home with my senior mom,niece,nephew and 2 female therapy cats.
I used to live on my own with 2 roommate friends twice for 4 months and later on for 8 to 11 months and both times I ended up moving back home because it didn't work out with my friends.
I know that in the near future that I will eventually have to live on my own by myself when my mom decides that she has to go into a senior facility or passes away.We share the rent,utilities,bills and buy groceries and I pay my part of the utilities,bills etc and my mom pays her own rent,utilities etc.
Nice to meet you! Thanks for sharing and watching!
Your welcome and I enjoy watching your videos
Oh and there’s creative wrap egypt too
Will check it out, thanks.
I live in alberta and I rent a townhouse so I can't attatch permanent light fixtures in the basement
wow nice vid I am also partially blind I also subbed to u
Thanks :D
the static is neurological it is called "visual snow" even with my eyes closed or in dark sky i see them more ..so the visual snow appears more in dark , while the center of the eyes is not getting light very good it is no light so it = dark and then visual snow is being added to dark parts of the whole image by the brain so the dark parts seems like tv static i have visual snow too so i just wanted to tell you the static is about the brain not the eyes as i readed
I get it I'm legely blind its Has to do with the contrast.
So far minimalistic has not been my goal. I find that I have lots of things lots of places and I can still see them some wet I guess I’m going to keep it that way until I can’t see them. But I did the same thing the young man below said I feel the countertops to make sure I can set my cup down and I fell down I never played port and miss you. All of the things he talked about but I would go a step further in saying that just the general every day things like when I’m filling my coffee cup I found that I can count to 12 at an even pace and it will be near the rim I keep my hand over my food as I put salt or pepper so that it hits my hand before the food and I can feel if I’m getting too much if it’s flowing too quickly. Are use for kitchen help here is a great thing called a rotator. You put the potatoes or fruit or whatever onto these prongs and you slide down the top or another prong holds it tightly in place you were just the blade to the top of the fruit or whatever and you hit go and it spins it and cuts all the outside off into long strings like spaghetti. It’s so easy to peel things with this. It is also great for doing this with you with your low-carb spaghetti you can put zucchini or squash onto the prongs and it will peel the skin into beautiful spaghetti strips. A bump dots or made in heaven I have them on my microwave my stove all of my utensils because then I know I’m pushing the right buttons for the right thing and sometimes it even if it’s just on and off it’s so helpful if you don’t have a butt bump dots look them up on Amazon. Thank you so much for this little tutorial it was very helpful to me and I hope my thoughts are helpful to others
Great video I am also legally blind/visually impaired creator New subscriber :-)
Hey, i'm a 22yo guy.
I'm blind in my right eye, partialy in my left and I have 2 questions for you:
When i'm at other people's place, they find me beïng "overly cautios" and "wierd". (I.e. feeling the countertop before setting down a glass. Or coming to close into they're personal space when they're show a funny meme).
Did you ever have problems like these, amd how do you deal with them?
And
Do legaly blind people have special selfcare routines for sore/strained eyes, headaches or things like that? I found some eyepatches with hyaluronic acid wich realy helps allot for sore eyes and baggy eyelids! Try them
(Fun thing to poke fun at with sighted friends: the abillaty to find your way in dark places much better than them 😆. Just pretend stumbling around and then suddenly smack the hell out of them bcs they don't know where you are 🤣🤌)
All said and done, thanks for the video!
I want to try living independatly with my visual impairment, but im not sure how to go about it. Any tips and advice to start off that would help me
Hi! I'm not sure what tips to give as I know nothing about your condition, but generally speaking, the best thing you could do is actually get help from friends and family to set up and ready yourself and your home for independent living. If there are any good support groups or organizations near you as well who could help out getting you settled and started, that would be great as they would have actual experience doing it!
@@legallyblind4215 i hqve optic nerve attrophy and there are some organizations that i can do that would help me but my family is worried about me living independantly and rather let me still stay under the household. Besides cooking and cleaning, i dont know much about other neccesities of living alone besides paying for bills, food, and other household items to help
What about getting a place mat and put on your counter so it's not so busy?
I do that sometimes, but not permanently... It's just more stuff to clean, haha!
@@legallyblind4215 My hubby was born with Retinas Pigmentosa. he finally went blind in 2019 and of course here in the USA we were in lock down. so he is just now getting to learn how to use a cane. i'm looking to see what else I can do to make his life easier.
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