Sight Loss Toolkit

Guidance for employers, healthcare professionals, businesses, people with sight loss and their friends and family. The Sight Loss Toolkit has been commissioned and funded by Roche.

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Welcome to Business Disability Forum’s Sight Loss Toolkit, commissioned and funded by Roche Products Ltd.

Here we provide a practical guide to sight loss through a range of free resources.

The Toolkit contains specific advice for people with sight loss as well as healthcare professionals, employers and businesses.

Understanding sight loss

IAPB research shows that 1.1 billion people globally have sight loss and the RNIB estimates that 250 people start to lose their sight every day in the UK. This is the equivalent of one person every six minutes.

Living with sight loss in a predominantly sighted world can be challenging. It can affect all aspects of everyday life including accessing healthcare, finding work, communication, getting around, and making purchases.

The Sight Loss Toolkit aims to remove these barriers by increasing understanding of sight loss.

The Sight Loss Toolkit

This Toolkit includes general resources, which are useful for everyone. These are:

The Toolkit also includes specific guidance for particular people. These are:

We have also written a glossary of specialist terms that appear in this Toolkit.

Acknowledgements

We are very grateful to Roche for commissioning and funding this Toolkit.

We would also like to thank the people with sight loss, health care professionals, employers and businesses and other organisations who helped to create the Toolkit. They share their own experiences, insights, and expertise throughout the resources. Go to the Introduction for a full list of contributors.

Business Disability Forum Members and Partners can access a range of other Toolkits to support disability inclusion for employees and consumers. Find out more about joining us at businessdisabilityforum.org.uk/membership.

Disclaimer: The Sight Loss Toolkit has been commissioned and funded by Roche Products Ltd. 

Material Number (M-GB-00020048) 

Date of preparation: November 2024 

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