Managing older adult driving safety in the primary care setting.
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چکیده
Melissa M. Amick, PhD the number of drivers over the age of 75 will dramatically increase over the next few decades. Adults age 85 and older have the highest rate of driver fatalities. Individuals age 70 and older have the greatest motor vehicle fatality rates per mile driven compared to all but the riskiest age group, those 25 years and younger. Advanced age is also a risk factor for motor vehicle crashes. Since driving safety declines as older adults age, clinicians caring for this population may be increasingly called upon to evaluate the driving safety of their elderly patients.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Medicine and health, Rhode Island
دوره 95 7 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2012