implications of these two new cases and then draw comparisons with the case used in the previous study of a working age person who is sight impaired. Costs have been adjusted to 2014 prices to enable comparison between the two studies. The slight variations between figures reported in this and the previous study are due to changes in the housing tenure model in the Main MIS case study, with consequent implications for furnishing requirements, and adjustments to fuel costs. Throughout this report, the term MIS’ is used to refer to the original ‘main MIS budgets for people who are not vision impaired. Chapter 3 The additional needs of people who are vision impaired This chapter looks at the additional and different needs that groups identified for two categories of people who are vison impaired. It reports the additional and different goods and services that groups included in the budgets for a single working age person who lives alone and is severely sight impaired with little or no useable sight, and for a single person of pension age living on their own who is sight impaired with some useable sight and has acquired sight loss in adult life. Each of these cases is compared to the equivalent main MIS budgets for people who are fully sighted. It also explains the rationales behind these changes to the budgets. This chapter looks at the needs of each of the above case studies in their own right. It is also possible to compare the effect of severity of impairment and the effect of impairment at different
implications of these two new cases and then draw comparisons with the case used in the previous study of a working age person who is sight impaired. Costs have been adjusted to 2014 prices to enable comparison between the two studies. The slight variations between figures reported in this and the previous study are due to changes in the housing tenure model in the Main MIS case study, with consequent implications for furnishing requirements, and adjustments to fuel costs. Throughout this report, the term ‘main MIS’ is used to refer to the original MIS budgets for people who are not vision impaired. Chapter 3 The additional needs of people who are vision impaired This chapter looks at the additional and different needs that groups identified for two categories of people who are vison impaired. It reports the additional and different goods and services that groups included in the budgets for a single working age person who lives alone and is severely sight impaired with little or no useable sight, and for a single person of pension age living on their own who is sight impaired with some useable sight and has acquired sight loss in adult life. Each of these cases is compared to the equivalent main MIS budgets for people who are fully sighted. It also explains the rationales behind these changes to the budgets. This chapter looks at the needs of each of the above case studies in their own right. It is also possible to compare the effect of severity of impairment and the effect of impairment at different
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