[Validation of the 13-30ARAMAV assessment, a new quality of life and autonomy questionnaire adapted to visually impaired patients].

Purpose: To evaluate the ARAMAV 13-30 questionnaire, a new autonomy and quality of life questionnaire developed for visually impaired patients.

Methods: We carried out a single-center prospective study at the ARAMAV institute in collaboration with the University Hospital of Nîmes. The patients included were admitted for low vision rehabilitation.

[Handicap related to blindness].

Handicap related to blindness. The interest of vision professionals in visual impairment is recent, dating back to the early 1990s. This interest led to the creation in 1996 of the French society for low-vision patients, ARIBa.

MACVIA-LR (Fighting Chronic Diseases for Active and Healthy Ageing in Languedoc-Roussillon): A Success Story of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing.

The Région Languedoc Roussillon is the umbrella organisation for an interconnected and integrated project on active and healthy ageing (AHA). It covers the 3 pillars of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA): (A) Prevention and health promotion, (B) Care and cure, (C) and (D) Active and independent living of elderly people. All sub-activities (poly-pharmacy, falls prevention initiative, prevention of frailty, chronic respiratory diseases, chronic diseases with multimorbidities, chronic infectious diseases, active and independent living and disability) have been included in MACVIA-LR which has a strong political commitment and involves all stakeholders (public, private, patients, policy makers) including CARSAT-LR and the Eurobiomed cluster.