title: Consensus statements for screening and assessment tools.
abstract: Occupational therapists, both generalists and specialists, have a critical role in providing services to senior drivers. These services include evaluating fitness-to-drive, developing interventions to support community mobility, and facilitating the transition from driving to non-driving when necessary for personal and community safety. The evaluation component and decision-making process about fitness-to-drive are highly dependent on the use of screening and assessment tools. The purpose of this paper is to briefly present the rationale and context for 12 consensus statements about the usefulness and appropriateness of screening and assessment tools to determine fitness-to-drive, within the occupational therapy clinical setting, and their implications on community mobility.
authors.affiliation: 1Centre for Research on Safe Driving, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bédard
authors.forename: Anne E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Dickerson
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D001334:Automobile Driving; D003657:Decision Making; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D006299:Health Services for the Aged; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods*; D009788:Occupational Therapy; D012449:Safety