Surrendering the Keys: A Doctor Tries to Get an Impaired Elderly Patient to Stop Driving

In this article, a physician explains how she sought information and guidance about how to handle the issue of unsafe driving by elderly patients. It came to the doctor’s attention that one of her patients, a man in his 80s who had failed an on-road driving assessment, was probably still driving. The article covers the basic facts about older drivers, discusses resources that can provide guidance for health care providers, considers state requirements for reporting potentially unsafe drivers, and suggests some ways that other stakeholders can assist physicians who face this issue. The author concludes by arguing for an improved policy framework to help get dangerous older drivers off the road.

• Authors:
  • Reisman, A
• Publication Date: 2011-2

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: pp 356-359
• Serial:
  • Health Affairs
  • Volume: 30
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Project HOPE
  • EISSN: 1544-5208.
  • Serial URL: https://www.healthaffairs.org/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aged drivers; Driver licensing; Driving; Driving tests; High risk drivers; Legal factors; Physicians; Risk assessment; Road tests; State laws
• Uncontrolled Terms: Driving restrictions
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01356081
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 31 2011 9:52AM