Feasibility and Validity of a Low-Cost Racing Simulator in Driving Assessment after Stroke.

There is a myriad of methodologies to assess driving performance after a stroke. These include psychometric tests, driving simulation, questionnaires, and/or road tests. Research-based driving simulators have emerged as a safe, convenient way to assess driving performance after a stroke.

Driving in the elderly in health and disease.

Driving is a complex, multifaceted instrumental activity of daily living that has an independent influence on multiple health and well-being outcomes among older adults. Therefore, the benefits of driving to the individual must be balanced, through careful assessment and diagnosis, with the potential risk to self and others posed by a medically impaired driver. The influence of dementia changes substantially during the disease progression from very mild to mild, and driving is not advised for those who have progressed to the moderate stage of Alzheimer disease.

A randomized crash injury prevention trial of transitioning high-risk elders from driving.

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Background: Older adults with medical conditions that impair function are at risk for experiencing a motor vehicle crash. This randomized controlled trial tested an intervention to reduce crash-related risk among older patients.

Productive and social engagement following driving cessation: a couple-based analysis.

Drawing on interdependence theory, this study examined the cross-spouse impact of driving cessation on productive (work, formal volunteering, and informal volunteering) and social engagement of older couples aged 65+ using longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study (1998-2010; N = 1,457 couples). Multilevel modeling results indicate that driving cessation reduced husbands' productive and social engagement, and wives' productive engagement. Spousal driving cessation reduced husbands' likelihood of working or formal volunteering, and wives' likelihood of working or informal volunteering.

Examining Rowe and Kahn's Concept of Successful Aging: Importance of Taking a Life Course Perspective.

Purpose Of The Study: This article critiques Rowe and Kahn's conceptualization of successful aging using tenets of the life course perspective.

Design And Methods: A review and synthesis of the literature on successful aging and studies that use a life course perspective.

Results: We draw on life course principles that view development as a dynamic lifelong process, embedded in historical time and place, and influenced by the web of relationships individuals are linked to, as well as more distal social structural factors.

Assessment of Readiness for Mobility Transition (ARMT): a tool for mobility transition counseling with older adults.

Individualized assessment is important when counseling older adults concerning the transition from driving to nondriving mobility. This study validated a measure of emotional and attitudinal readiness in support of mobility transition counseling (MTC). Items derived from a mixed-methods approach were administered by mailed questionnaire to community-dwelling adults (n = 297; ages 57-95).

Giving up the keys: how driving cessation affects engagement in later life.

Purpose: Many older adults consider driving vital to maintaining their preferred lifestyle and engagement with society, yet it is normative for individuals to eventually stop driving. This study examined the impact of driving cessation on older adults' productive and social engagement and whether their mental and physical health mediated this relationship.

Design And Methods: Multilevel modeling was used to analyze longitudinal data (N = 4,788 adults age 65 and over) from the Health and Retirement Study (1998-2010).

An intervention to help older adults maintain independence safely.

Older adults who live alone are at risk for problems (e.g., falling, sudden illness).