Assessing medically impaired older drivers in a licensing agency setting.
An exploratory study is being conducted jointly by the California Department of Motor Vehicles and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to develop a licensing agency assessment battery for elderly drivers with dementia or other aging-related medical conditions. A preliminary battery of nondriving tests and road tests is described; test results for a small pilot sample are presented, and the tests are evaluated in terms of their utility for detecting functional impairment and predicting driving performance. Some considerations that shape construction of a test battery for licensing agency use are discussed in relation to these goals and the givens of a driver licensing environment.
Janke
M K
MK
Department of Motor Vehicles, Sacramento, CA 95818, USA. mjanke@smtp.dmv.ca.gov
Eberhard
J W
JW
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001334:Automobile Driving / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D002140:California; D003072:Cognition Disorders; D005260:Female; D005853:Geriatrics; D006801:Humans; D016014:Linear Models; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis