The mission of the Atlanta Vision Loss Center is to improve the everyday function and quality of life of aging Veterans with vision loss and their caregivers.

This mission will be accomplished by: 1) Research directed toward a multidisciplinary understanding of the mechanisms causing and interacting with vision loss and then applying this understanding to develop creative interdisciplinary rehabilitative interventions. 2) Incorporating these creative rehabilitative interventions into comprehensive rehabilitation that accounts for multifactorial disabilities associated with aging and common comorbidities to improve everyday function and quality of life for the whole person. 3) Evaluating the utilization, cost-effectiveness, and satisfaction associated with these interventions.