Researchers at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have found that elders who stay behind the wheel are less likely to enter nursing homes or assisted living centers than those who have never driven or who have given up driving altogether.
The majority of older adults rate themselves as excellent drivers though one in four had a wreck in the previous five years.
Washington State Department of Licensing resource for older drivers.
Virginia’s Department of Motor Vehicles’ website gives information regarding safe driving courses and GrandDriver for mature drivers in the state.
An interdisciplinary research team has made a surprising discovery: Older, more mature motorists-who typically are better drivers in many circumstances-are much worse than their younger counterparts when texting while driving.
To learn more about how to recognize and discuss changes in older drivers. You may want to share some of the materials at the following site with family members.
If your state is looking to create a state resource page for Older Drivers, please use these as examples.
This statewide coalition is led by the Florida Department of Transportation in partnership with the Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy at Florida State University.
This website focuses on Florida’s senior drivers and indicates that aging requires some changes in terms of driving safely.
This page on the Federal Highway Administration’s website has many links to research reports and publications published by the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC) in McLean, Virginia.