Medications and Medical Conditions Impact on Driving

Talking to seniors about their driving abilities can be a difficult conversation to have. For many people, driving represents independence, so giving that freedom can be very difficult to accept. 

A few key decisions can give your heart that extra attention and lower your odds of a heart attack or stroke. 

It's important to remember you don't have to plan your transportation retirement alone. 

Under an agreement, NHTSA and AGS developed companion professional and public education products to increase the availability of safe driving resources for both clinicians and older drivers and their caregivers.

The Driver Orientation Screen for Cognitive Impairment DOSCI is a short questionnaire for officers to screen for cognitive impairments. 

NHTSA’s video on driving with Parkinson’s disease discusses how the illness affects body movements and can cause body tremors which both could affect driving safely. 

This video created by NHTSA shows how driving with diabetes can increasingly become more difficult and impossible to continue.

NHTSA’s video on driving with Alzheimer’s disease and other serious forms of dementia shows how difficult it is to drive safely when a senior is affected by one of these illnesses. 

NHTSA's publication "Driving Transitions Education (Tools, Scripts, And Practices)"

This study examined a cohort of 227 older drivers and investigated the relationship between performance on the electronic Driver Observation Schedule (eDOS) driving task.