In a startling reversal of popular assumptions new research commissioned by Thomas Pocklington Trust (1) shows that when people with sight loss suffer depression and low quality of life it is more to do with low incomes, ill health and lack of social participation, than it is to do with their loss of vision.The study (2), conducted by researchers from the University of Manchester School of Social Sciences, investigated the factors that influence well-being among older people with visual impairment. It confirmed that there is a dramatic association between vision and poor quality of life but found that this is entirely explained by the health, economic and social inequalities experienced by people with sight loss
Of course it does. I'm glad to see more attention being paid to poverty and disability.