This video provides law enforcement professionals with tips to help identify potential cognitive impairment and actions to take when there is a concern.
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This video provides law enforcement professionals with tips to help identify potential cognitive impairment and actions to take when there is a concern.
This study examines the relationship between falls and subsequent motor vehicle crash involvement among older drivers.
The Alzheimer’s blog posted an infographic (via www.alz.org) with 3 tips on how to stop a person with dementia from driving when reasoning with them hasn’t worked.
Learn about the medical problems that can occur with age, chronic diseases, and medication including vision, decreased motor function, dementia, diabetes and other conditions.
Before the traffic stop look at the red flags for medically at-risk drivers to learn the best way to approach and handle the situation.
The Alzheimer’s Society produced a podcast to discuss the affects of dementia on a senior’s ability to drive.
This paper works as a guide for occupational therapists when addressing driving, mobility and dementia in seniors.
NHTSA’s video on driving with Parkinson’s disease discusses how the illness affects body movements and can cause body tremors which both could affect driving safely.
This video created by NHTSA shows how driving with diabetes can increasingly become more difficult and impossible to continue.
NHTSA’s video on driving with Alzheimer’s disease and other serious forms of dementia shows how difficult it is to drive safely when a senior is affected by one of these illnesses.