Using the community health assessment to screen for continued driving

• Published in: Accident analysis and prevention Vol. 63; pp. 104 - 110
• Main Authors: Morris, John N., Howard, Elizabeth P., Fries, Brant E., Berkowitz, Randi, Goldman, Beryl, David, Daniel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 01.02.2014; Elsevier
• Subjects: Accidents, Traffic - prevention & control; Activities of Daily Living; Adults; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Assessments; Automobile Driving - psychology; Automobile Driving - statistics & numerical data; Biological and medical sciences; Cognition; Communication; Communities; Decisions; Direct reduced iron; Driving review; Female; Geriatric Assessment - methods; Housing; Humans; Independent Living - psychology; Logistic Models; Logistics; Male; Mass Screening; Medical sciences; Memory, Short-Term; Miscellaneous; Older adults; Prevention and actions; Psychomotor Performance; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Regression; Risk Assessment - methods; Screening tool; United States; United States; USA; Driving review; Older adults; Screening tool; Human; Vehicle driving; Community health; Review; Medical screening; Elderly; Bibliographic review; Tool

•There is a need to identify those older adults at increased risk for car accidents.•We examine the characteristics of older adults whose driving has been questioned.•We correlated simple assessment measures with decisions not to drive.•Key assessment items are useful to screen for driving risk amon...