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Full History - 2021 - 10 - 07 - ID#q3ce94
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Tips for activities for a visually impaired older woman (self.Blind)
submitted by proerafortyseven
My mom is 72 and just got home from a long hospital stay due to unrelated illness. She is slowly recovering but understandably depressed, and she can’t do any of the active things she might otherwise be interested in doing.

She isn’t blind, but her vision is impaired to the point that she can’t read books, read TV subtitles, do jigsaw puzzles, etc.

I’m trying to think of activities to cheer her up and/or engage her mentally while she’s unable to leave the house/do pottery (her favorite). So I asked myself, what do visually impaired people do for fun? The only thing I’ve thought of so far is audiobooks, but she can only listen to those for so long.

Thanks in advance for any tips or ideas 🙂
Mysterious_Grocery85 2 points 1y ago
I wonder if in the evenings she might like to listen to the kind of radio dramas that would have been on the radio when she was a child. Not children’s ones, but the ones her adult family members would have listened to. You might be able to find them on YouTube
LilacRose32 1 points 1y ago
Knitting or crochet- especially if she already has some of the concepts
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