VIDEO: Collaboration needed to care for patients with AMD

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We are circling back to that collaboration between ophthalmologists and optometrists and low vision specialists. It’s crucial for these patients in their optimized care in every single stage. Accurate diagnosis, which is usually done with the optometrist, then appropriate management that is usually done by the retina specialist, and then the ongoing care to optimize their visual outcomes with the low vision specialist. So, this is very important for them to have the best possible quality of life. I think that we have to work harder to improve these aspects. We have to actually have all of these people work more closely together. In advanced cases, we likely have to get involved primary care clinicians and geriatricians to provide more holistic and more comprehensive care for these patients so that actually we can improve their quality of life.