For more information, advice, or support, you can contact our Nurse-led helpline on 020 7566 2345.

For patients of Moorfields, our Medical Social Work department is available to provide counselling and advice about education, training, employment, aids to daily living and registration as partially sighted or blind. Find out more about the Medical Social work department, contact us via the website, or phone us on 020 7566 2355.

Your emotions may fluctuate as you realise your loss of central vision is a permanent feature and talking to someone may help you to come to terms with this.

Other sources of help are:

The Macular Disease Society
http://www.maculardisease.org
Darwin House
13A Bridge Street
Andover
SP10 1BE

Tel: 0845 2412041

AMD Alliance
http://www.amdalliance.org

Other websites

More internet-based information on AMD is also available at:

Macular Degeneration support
http://www.mdsupport.org

Macular Degeneration Network
www.macular-degeneration.org

American Health Assistance Foundation
www.ahaf.org