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Here are some of the most frequent questions around driving that Dr. Resnicks has addressed during her decades of practice taking care of older adults. 

Prescription medicines, over-the-counter medicines dietary supplements, and even some herbal products, can cause side effects that increase your risk for a fall or motor vehicle crash. 

Distracted driving is doing another activity that takes the driver's attention away from driving. It can increase the chance of a motor vehicle crash. Visit the CDC website for find more information. 

Tom Kalina, MS/OTR, CDRS, talks about seeing different scenarios of older drivers with dementia. 

Planning ahead is hard because you never know how your needs might change. The NIH wrote an article about how to age in place. 

You can go over this article to see how prescription drugs and over-the-counter medications affect patients driving ability. 

The purpose of this investigation was to determine what older adults find most concerning about driving as they age and how these concerns are related to driving skills, behaviors, and experiences. 

This report uses data from the 2017 National Household Travel Survey to examine the daily travel patterns of American adults with travel-limiting disabilities and data from 2001-2009 to look at trends over time.

The aging and disability network is made up of local, state, and national organizations and committed advocates working to support older adults and people with disabilities. 

1 in 4 adults in the United States, or 61 million people, have at least one of these disabilities: hearing, vision, cognition, mobility, self-care, and independent living. Anyone can have a disability at any point in their life.