If you live together, tell your friend or family member what they can do to help you with chores or other responsibilities. Help your friend or family member to design their own exercise program and exercise regularly. If you have a computer, consider re-printing your friend or family member's recipes or addresses in large type and collecting them in a binder, or have them bound at a copy shop. At a low vision support group, your friend or family member would have the chance to talk to people who have walked a mile in their shoes and can understand their experience. Support groups are great places to vent, to laugh, to get new solutions for daily challenges and new ideas for living.
Support groups can also be very helpful for spouses of people with low vision.
If there is no support group in your area, that doesn't mean there aren't any other people with low vision. It just means that no one is getting the benefit of a support group. We are all prone to take life too seriously. Very few people get to the end of their lives wishing they had been more earnest, more worried, or more self-conscious. We all try so hard to get it right the first time, to avoid misfortune and mistakes, to look good in public.