Assessments of quality of life using different methodologies have been shown to produce different outcomes with low intercorrelations between them. Only a minority of patients were prepared to trade time for a return to normal vision. Conjoint analysis showed two subgroups with different priorities. Severity of glaucoma influenced the relative importance of priorities.

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This article explores the significance of childhood experience of woodlands and other green or natural places in relation to adult patterns of use and attitudes to such places. It draws on data collected in different parts of Britain. Questionnaires were used to explore the frequency of adults' visits to green places, the frequency with which they reported visiting such places as children, and their attitudes to different attributes of the places they visited. The data show a strong relationship between frequent childhood visits and being prepared to visit woodlands or green spaces alone as an adult. By contrast, not visiting as a child was associated with a very low likelihood of later adult visits. The data also suggest that the physical and the emotional benefits of access to green space are strongly reflected in childhood experience. The significance of these findings for today's children, as they become adults, is discussed.

This study, carried out by the Edinburgh Visual Impairment Research Group with outpatients of the Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion (Edinburgh, Scotland), focuses on the relationship between low vision, travel behaviour, and quality-of-life issues. The study was part of a wider investigation into the functional and quality-of-life benefits of cataract surgery for patients with age-related macular degeneration. Each patient was asked to complete a travel diary for the previous week and answer a mobility questionnaire as part of an interview session.The aim of the study was to identify the personal, environmental, and transportation factors that have an impact on visually impaired people's mobility and independence. The analysis has demonstrated that there are different subgroups of patients with different patterns of travel behaviour. While aspects of the built environment and transport system such as controlled road crossings and location of bus stops play an important role in determining the travel behaviour of visually impaired people, there is a personal factor involving a combination of age and vision in the better eye that best explains the travel behaviour patterns of visually impaired people.

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