In 2006, our club had the opportunity to help The Croixdale Senior Community obtain a Video Magnifier.
Croixdale, in Bayport has 130 senior adults that live in the Senior Apartments, Assisted Living and Memory units at Croixdale. Of the 130 residents at least 22 have significant visual impairment caused by Macular Degeneration, Glaucoma, Diabetic Retinopathy, and other eye conditions. and would likely make frequent use of video magnification equipment if it were available.
Croixdale currently offers a number of programs aimed at residents with visual problems. For instance, large print games (bingo, playing cards, puzzles), large pull down screen in community room, and large print books in the resident’s library including talking books. The Croixdale staff works closely with the Bayport Library to bring in large print books every month for the residents. Weekly the Activity Director reads ’News for You’ reads aloud to the residents.
With all that is being done for those with visual impairment, what the residents needed was a device that can magnify photographs, medicine bottles, bills, checks (so they can see where to sign their names) newspapers and the like.
Our club submitted and received a District Simplified Grant which allowed us to purchase and deliver the devide to Croixdale.
