Studies have shown that our driving abilities decline with age, and for those with cognitive issues such as dementia, it can be even worse.
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Standardized Road Test Results Differ from Older Adults’ Natural Driving — National (12/05/2012)
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Road Test and Naturalistic Driving Performance in Healthy and Cognitively Impaired Older Adults: Does Environment Matter? — National (10/30/2012)
Source: AssociationTo relate the standardized road test to video recordings of naturalistic driving in older adults with a range of cognitive impairment.
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Identifying and Remediating Failures of Selective Attention in Older Drivers — National (02/02/2012)
Source: AssociationOlder 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.