Five Easy Ways to Get Through a Workday Without Your Glasses

Whether you only wear glasses for reading, just use contact lens to better see the whiteboard, or need your prescription eyewear to see two feet in front of you, forgetting your glasses or contacts at home is a huge bummer, especially when you have a big day of work or school ahead. Luckily though, with a little common sense, a few easy tricks, and an abundance of helpful mobile apps, getting through a low-sight day at the office isn’t nearly as hard as it could be. In fact, with the proper preparation, it can be positively easy. Below are five of the best ways to get through such a day.

Keep a Spare Set at Work

If you can afford it, it never hurts to keep a spare set of glasses or contact lens in your work desk, locker, or car. Many eyewear providers even offer discount deals if you buy more than one set of your prescription at a time. If you can’t afford to buy two high-quality pairs of glasses, then it’s never a bad idea to test out a few of those cheap-o reading glasses that they sell at drug stores. With a little luck, you’ll find a pair that will get you through the day when you’ve left your normal glasses on your bedside table.

 

Pick Up a Cheap Pair at the Drug Store

If you don’t have a spare pair at work, you can still always run down to a nearby drugstore and pick up a cheap pair of reading glasses. Though they’ll likely be of slightly lesser quality than your prescription pair, they will get the job done and help you throughout the day.

 

Try Out One of Several Mobile Apps

The tech explosion in the last few years isn’t all about fun and games â€" it’s also about helping people in their daily lives. No single technology does this better than the variety of mobile apps that are now available on iPhones, Androids, and other smartphones. Perform a quick search in your phone’s app store for something along the lines of “vision improvement,” “forgot my glasses,” or “low-vision apps” and you’re sure to be bombarded with results. A few of the best for those days when you forget or lose your glasses are iMagnify and VisionAssist. They both turn your phone into a high-powered magnifying glass that helps you read fine print and see tiny objects.

 

Make Use of Your Computer’s Vision-Impaired Settings

If you have a computer-heavy job that requires that you stare at a screen all day, spending a day without your glasses can have a real strain on your eyes. However, your computer is loaded with settings for the vision-impaired that you can utilize to your benefit. The most useful of these settings are the ones that increase the size of the text on your screen. In some cases, new computers even come preset with nifty zoom-in functions so seeing something up close is a snap.

 

Improve Your Vision at Home

There’s never anything wrong with taking preventive action at home. And apart from making sure that you remember your glasses, strengthening your vision is the best way to do this. Similar to the ones mentioned above, there are a variety of vision improvements apps available that can help you increase your vision and improve your eyesight. GlassesOff is one of the most progressive among these. It is a scientist-backed brain-training app that helps your brain learn to process blurry images.

Forgetting your glasses before a big day at work or school can seem like the end of the world. But by following the five easy tips discussed above, you’ll find that it really isn’t too hard to power through a day without your trusty prescription eyewear.

Jack Douglas is an app developer with a penchant for vision enhancement apps. He likes sharing his findings on various tech blogs. Learn about ordering prescription lenses online by visiting the Lenstore.

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White House Releases Long-Awaited Rules On Mental Health

The mental health parity law passed in 2008, but it didn't cover people in smaller health plans.

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The Obama administration delivered on a long-delayed health care promise when it issued rules to ensure equal health insurance treatment for people with mental health and substance abuse problems.

The rules, issued Friday, require that most health insurance plans offer the same amount of coverage for mental health and substance abuse claims as they do for medical and surgical coverage.

That means insurers can't charge someone more for mental health services than for other services. It used to be that plans could â€" and would â€" pay 80 percent for medical care but only 50 percent for mental health care. But under these rules, plans can't cover fewer inpatient hospital days for mental health or substance abuse treatment than they do for a physical illness.

The law creating what's called mental health "parity" actually passed in 2008. Mental health advocates have been agitating for these rules ever since.

That's because once the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act barred insurance companies from imposing limits on the number of hospital days or copayments, insurance companies started looking for other ways to limit mental health and substance abuse care, like requiring preauthorizations that they don't demand for other medical care. That won't be allowed anymore. These rules also clarify coverage for rehabilitation or other intermediate types of care that don't fall neatly into inpatient or outpatient categories.

Until recently, the mental health parity law only applied to people covered by large group health plans â€" those with more than 100 workers.

That all changed when the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010. It expands parity requirements to include smaller group and individual plans. And it also requires that those plans cover mental health and substance abuse.

But that last requirement wasn't included in the 2008 law, and it still doesn't apply to larger plans under the Affordable Care Act. The 2008 law just says if the plan offers coverage, that coverage has to be the same for mental health and substance abuse as it is for other medical care.

So more people are covered, but there are still some people who are left out. While Medicare now has a mental health parity requirement, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program don't.

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