Orientation and mobility training for travel outside the home, if he’s not already signed up for that it will offer him much more independence. Some training centers also offer art classes to develop skills for hobbies.

I feel like basic cooking (especially healthy clean eating) and exercise should be part of it!

1. Toothpaste: Skip the brush, straight into the mouth
2. Yes I know you are coming right back to it. Close the closet, cupboard door anyway.
3. House-slippers... That or enjoy broken toes
4. If he is American, https://nlsbard.loc.gov/nlsbardprod/login//NLS He'll need someone professional to fill out a form but it should, probably, be easy

In my experience working with people who have gone blind, it's been important to ensure the newly blind person has support. Going blind is scary. Having people around to share those feelings with and feel supported can mean so much and be so helpful. The newly blind person may feel as though their world is being taken away. If you can talk to them about how that isn't true, that would be good. For example, they may want to travel, date someone, read books, go snow skiing, or any number of other things. Connecting the person with resources will be important. Finally, depending on the amount of vision loss, it's a good idea to start learning to use assistive technology, such as screen readers. Honestly, the human support is a tremendous help.

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Sorry, that this is a long response. I've worked with several people in this situation. I worked with a guy a few years back, who lost his sight in his 40s. He had owned his own insurance company. He had a house, wife, and everything you can think of that suggests success in America. When he lost his sight, he had to give up his business, his wife left him, and he ended up on SSI. He had to sell most of his material possessions. It didn't stop him. He worked hard to learn to use the resources at his disposal, including organizations that serve the blind and connections he made along the way (I was one of those). In the end, he got a job working for the government, started dating a blind girl, and has pretty much gotten everything back that he thought he lost. He's actually happier being blind, in many ways. He misses driving, of course. Don't we all, even if we've never driven? I hope this helps. Again, sorry for the long response.

I never really liked being told it was a journey. Journeys are fun, getting used to not being able to see is not fun.

Anyway aside from the semantics, get some cane training, get out and do stuff. People tend to sit around waiting for it to somehow get more bearable, which it won't unless those people work at it. People tend to think oh, I feel terrible right now, I'll sit on the couch for a bit, then realise years later that nothing changes unless you make it change. Unfortunately the process of quote getting over it unquote is not automatic and it takes a lot of mental and physical sweat.

Make sure there's something to do every day that involves leaving the house, as well as lots of things that don't. And do not do things now that you don't want to become ingrained as normal. Don't do stuff for him that you would expect him to figure out how to do himself. Yes, this makes life amazingly slow and annoying, but that's what it is. It's learning a thousand techniques to get around normal life stuff, which unfortunately you can only learn by doing.

But definitely get out and do stuff.

Have him figure out what ways they can consume their favorite media. My father, who’s been fully blind for 30 years enjoys cassette tape books, and is a big fan of Amazon Alexa, lets him find information using only his voice

If you're in the U.S, get them into vocational rehab and from there to a structured discovery training center ASAP, what they can do for this person there is so much more useful in the longrun.

Try to make sure they have some hobbies they enjoy. If they recently went blind they may not be able to do their old hoboes. If they are enjoying some activities they’ll find the energy/ motivation to adapt to their new life

Take your cues from the low vision and O&M specialist. They can provide for the specific needs of this individual. And, listen to the person.