AMD Awareness

Yasha Modi, MD

Modi reports consulting for Genentech and Zeiss, and serving on the advisory board for Apellis and Iveric Bio.

June 15, 2023
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VIDEO: How AMD can affect a patient's lifestyle

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AMD affects every part of their lifestyle. When patients get to the advanced stages of macular degeneration, they have difficulty seeing, and obviously, that sort of correlates with difficulty functioning, difficulty driving, cooking, navigating around their home. But it also has impacts to everybody on the family because now, all of a sudden, this patient has become a dependent, and they require a support system, either by family or some other mechanism to help them navigate the world.