Support - Featured articles:This article outlines a new booklet entitled "Supporting the Mature Driver: A Handbook for Friends, Family Members, and Advisors", which offers information on how to address the needs of older drivers. More »
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Full color booklet in PDF format (very slow loading) offers advice on how age affects driving; medications; assessing skills; helping cope; retiring from driving; overcoming resistance to stopping; and resources in the 50 U.S. states.
The bottom half of this page has personal anecdotes and opinions about older drivers' incidents, license revocations, and family members' thoughts.
Reports on a New York survey that was conducted in 1997 to learn about the problems and needs of families with an unsafe older driver.
Discusses some of the problems faced by seniors who rely on relatives and friends to give them rides for errands.
Article in American Family Physician describes a comprehensive, step-by-step assessment that doctors can do for older drivers.
Advice on how to talk to someone about their driving skills, exploring possibilities, and finding alternatives to driving.
Provides tips on the transition from self-driving to other options, and how to wean a friend off driving.
The Center for Assistive Technology at the University at Buffalo (USA) lists a video that discusses the physical problems (and some solutions) that vehicles present.
Depending on a person's level of ability, or deterioration of ability, there may be some options, says this article on Dr. Koop's site.
PDF article subtitled "A handbook for families, friends, and caregivers worried about the safety of an aging driver." From the New York State Office for the Aging.
