| Title |
Driving assessment for maintaining mobility and safety in drivers with dementia
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, August 2013
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| DOI | 10.1002/14651858.cd006222.pub4 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Alan J Martin, Richard Marottoli, Desmond O'Neill |
| Abstract |
Demographic changes are leading to an increase in the number of older drivers: as dementia is an age-related disease, there is also an increase in the numbers of drivers with dementia. Dementia can impact on both the mobility and safety of drivers, and the impact of formal assessment of driving is unknown in terms of either mobility or safety. Those involved in assessment of older drivers need to be aware of the evidence of positive and negative effects of driving assessment. Cognitive tests are felt by some authors to have poor face and construct validity for assessing driving performance; extrapolating from values in one large-scale prospective cohort study, the cognitive test that most strongly predicted future crashes would, if used as a screening tool, potentially prevent six crashes per 1000 people over 65 years of age screened, but at the price of stopping the driving of 121 people who would not have had a crash. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 25% |
| Ireland | 1 | 25% |
| Unknown | 2 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 50% |
| Members of the public | 1 | 25% |
| Scientists | 1 | 25% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 135 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 17 | 13% |
| Researcher | 16 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 15 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 15 | 11% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 12 | 9% |
| Other | 16 | 12% |
| Unknown | 44 | 33% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 28 | 21% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 18 | 13% |
| Psychology | 16 | 12% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 4% |
| Social Sciences | 5 | 4% |
| Other | 14 | 10% |
| Unknown | 49 | 36% |
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