How can you make any decisions about driving ability in the doctors office, without watching someone drive?
In some instances on-road testing will be needed. An in office screening tool will help identify those persons that clearly should not be driving, those that appear to be safe to continue driving, and those that require more in-depth and possibly on-road testing. Nevertheless, since it would be unfair to seniors (i.e. cost, time, stress) and since we neither have the numbers of on-road testers to send every driver with medical and functional conditions for annual on-road testing, we must be practical and use the medical resources that we do have. With the proper tools physicians will be better able to make many of these evaluations.
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- How do physicians presently decide when someone should stop driving? What training do doctors have to assess the ability to drive of the elderly?
- How can you make any decisions about driving ability in the doctors office, without watching someone drive?
