As Canada’s elderly continue to represent the fastest-growing population in Canada, there has been an increasing need for effective and efficient screening tools for senior drivers.
In 2003, 63 international experts on older driver issues met to examine three critical issues related to the safe mobility of senior drivers.
NHTSA’s Technical Report on injury vulnerability and the effectiveness of occupant protection technologies for older occupants and women.
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.
This study investigated whether self-monitoring of driving by use of driving would improve driving performance in senior drivers.
This study was done to determine if an individualized educational program to enhance driver safety skills would reduce the crash rate risk in senior drivers.
Older drivers are primarily overinvolved in crashes at intersections, and failure to attend to regions that contain relevant information about potential hazards is a major contributor to this problem.
Everyone ages differently, so there is no arbitrary cutoff as to when someone should stop driving.
The objective of this study was to assess whether alternating different tinted windshields would affect aging drivers’ visual acuity and glare response.
The objective of this study was to evaluate how UFOV impairments affect time-to-contact estimates in elderly drivers deciding when to make a left turn across oncoming traffic.