Evaluating the driving competence of dementia patients
A.R. Dobbs
Bok Engelsk 1997
| Utgitt | 1997
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| Omfang | Side 8- 12
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| Opplysninger | The driving behaviors of dementia patients have received little inthe way of empirical scrutiny except through retrospective reports ofcrash rates. Understanding the driving errors of dementia patientsand how they differ from those of normal older and younger drivers isimportant. This knowledge is basic to the development of road testsand scoring procedures to evaluate the driving competence of older,experienced drivers, especially those whose fitness to drive may havebeen compromised by a medical illness that altars their menialabilities. We have drive tested over 100 currently driving elderlypatients with clinically significant cognitive decline (mostlydiagnosed as the early stages of Alzheimer disease) and comparedtheir performance with that of normal drivers. The study identifiedtile types of driving errors that distinguish and differentiate thecognitively impaired group as well as a set of driving errors typicalof both cognitively impaired and normal experienced drivers butdiffering in the number and severity elf errors. A set of errors wasalso identified that did not differentiate the groups and should notbe used in evaluating a person's competence to drive.
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