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January 2024 – Didcot Cafe Scientifique, Adela Garcia – Talk on ‘Living with sight loss in the UK and Oxfordshire’
16th January 2024 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Didcot Cafe Scientifique
Tuesday 16th January 2024 at 7.30pm
Taking place in Nourish Cafe at Cornerstone Arts Centre, Didcot.
Living with sight loss in the UK and Oxfordshire. What are the leading causes of low vision and what resources are available to those who become blind or visually impaired in our area?
About our speaker Adela Garcia – I am a Dispensing Optician and Retail Director in a local Specsavers Opticians. I have worked in optics for 18 years and I am a fellow of the British Dispensing Opticians. My day to day job involves a lot of problem solving, from providing vision aids to patients with low vision, children and adults with learning difficulties, patients with facial disfigurement and dementia , to providing more common solutions to customers with presbyopia, myopia, astigmatism and general eye conditions. I do not diagnose eye diseases or prescribe , but help carry out tests to diagnose and provide optical solutions after diagnosis. As part of the NHS Enhance Optical Services it is also my job to advice and refer those that come to us with minor eye care conditions and DVLA tests.
Being an Optician in the UK means we have to commit to follow guidelines established by the General Optical Council and the NHS ,and to obtain a certain amount of points per year in advanced education to ensure we are up to date with all the new technology and changes in the world of optics, making this career ever changing and very rewarding.