Rnib might still have a CD library service where they post them.out and he returned them when he's done, if he's not into tech. Or his local library might even do him a favour if you both pre arrange something.

Does he get meal on wheels delivered, again it's someone else to chat with one day a week

Re-engage. It’s actually an anti loneliness charity as opposed to a blindness charity. You do a sort of personality test and they pair you with someone who they think you’ll get on with. I’ve been working with them for maybe around 5 months or so. I call him every Wednesday evening. He just sounded really down so I’m keen to see what I can do to help.

Everyone is different.

Blindness can be very isolating especially at first when you have to relearn every little thing in your life. It took time for me too

there's been a running joke in the blind community for years that RNIB actually stands for Really Not Interested in the Blind... They can be quite useless, especially for the well-adapted.
I'm also in the Uk, mid 30's. Feel free to send me a PM if he's got specifics you would like a second opinion on.

Hmm that's well young enough that he needs to deal with it properly. People don't like it when I say this but it's different if it's someone who is 95 years old. At his age he needs to learn how to deal with it and I don't know that you can help him totally with that remotely, but there's stuff you can he can do. Mainly him, frankly.

I could you all kinds of things but fixing the whole feeling like he's wasting his life issue is a very broad thing to address and takes a lot of effort in different areas. Braille frankly is a massive drag, it's notoriously difficult to learn and slow to use. I run a business and I don't read braille. It's sad that it's a dying art but it is not essential in a world where the internet exists.

In my view orientation and mobility is the first thing to hit because you are stuffed if you can't even get out of the house and into a cab, or down the road to the corner shop to get some wine, er, milk I mean. If it's been four years we are well, well past time he should have all that stuff down and if he doesn't, push for it, and if he's reluctant don't think you're doing the guy a favour by being nice. Excessive niceness is a problem. Nobody wants to be seen in public with a white stick, it's a case of doing it regardless. That takes proper in person training from a qualified person. If he's capable of soloing short trips and can do things like trains and buses then we can talk about next steps, which basically means get out of the house as much as possible and do stuff.

I should be upfront that I have no particular qualifications in rehabilitation or orientation and mobility or anything like that but I have mentored people. The people I've spoken to are much younger and female but there are common factors.