NCBI Podcast meets Gerard McHugh on sight loss and family
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English - April 11, 2022 15:00 - 26 minutes - 18 MBSociety & Culture sight loss ncbi vision impairment visual impairment blind ncbi labs low vision. charity ireland Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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#NCBIPodcast meets Gerard McHugh from Laois. Gerard outlines how his life has been turned upside down due to his deteriorating sight loss and having had a stroke, the impact it’s had on his daughter and being unable to pursue his passion for motorbikes. He shares his frustration at the inflexibility of Government systems to adequately support people who are blind or vision impaired financially despite the evidence of the additional costs incurred.