[The elderly and driving in the canton of Vaud].
Which elderly person may drive and who should decide? These questions translate a frequent doctor's dilemma. Driving is a tremendously complex perceptive, motor, cognitive, and emotional activity. Assessing someone's ability to drive requires investigating these various components. However, a driving test is often needed. Driving limitations and a psychotherapeutic approach may help a patient give up driving, but occasionally forcing them to quit driving may prove unavoidable. Ideally, a preventive approach initiated long before old age might help decrease the frequency of the old driver's dilemma.
von Gunten
Armin
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Service Universitaire de Psychiatrie de l'Age Avancé (SUPAA), rte du Mont, 1008 Prilly.
Pera
Robert
R
Mouron
Luc
L
Duc
Robert
R
Küng
Adrian
A
D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000517:prevention & control; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001334:Automobile Driving; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors; D013557:Switzerland