Screening & Assessments

Learn to balance public safety with the needs of all constituents, including older drivers, to improve the safety and mobility of older drivers. This is an online self-paced cource

AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety Driver Licensing Policies and Practices Database: This database shows each state's Driver Licensing Policies and Practices affecting older and Medically- At-Risk drivers. 

This reference tool includes information on who to screen and how to report drivers with medical conditions. It also provides a listing of tests recommended by the American Geriatric Society to determine driving fitness.

Medscape/WebMD has resumed collaboration with NHTSA and has developed educational courses directed to healthcare professionals to enhance knowledge of the impacts of medical conditions, impairments on safe driving and the role they play.

Practitioner's toolkit- OT's role in driving rehab provides tools and resources that promote the growth of occupational therapy programs and services addressing safety mobility and participation in the community as drivers. 

The Clinician’s Guide to Assessing and Counseling Older Drivers, 4th Edition, is published by the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) as a service to healthcare providers involved in the care of older adults, which is free to register. 

The Georgia Department of Public Health's 55+ Driver Safety Program hosted a brief series of pop-up presentations focused on aging road users. Here is the presentation recording of "Recognizing Dementia in Drivers for Law Enforcement."

NHTSA offers a YouTube video to help State Driver Licensing Agencies (SDLA) screen for medically at-risk drivers

This course is designed so that those involved in aging road user safety can gain the skills and knowledge to manage a successful and sustainable aging road user safety program. 

The program utilizes a public health approach to develop collaborative relationships and processes to determine appropriate education, environmental, policy interventions for health and safety professionals, as well as the public