ArticleAging health2010
How does dementia affect driving in older patients?
Article in Aging health, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.
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Who cites it
25 citing papers in PubMed.
- Driving the neural exposome: Latent mobility states from naturalistic GPS data in older adults.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026Article
- What needs to be addressed in caring for people living with dementia? A multi-faceted evidence on financial, psychological, and physical health issues in dementia care.Frontiers in dementia · 2026Article
- Slowed Driving Reaction Time in Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2025Article
- Implications of using administrative healthcare data to identify risk of motor vehicle crash-related injury: the importance of distinguishing crash from crash-related injury.Injury epidemiology · 2024Article
- CarFreeMe™-Dementia: Potential Benefits of a Driving Retirement Intervention Supporting Persons With Dementia and Their Families.Innovation in aging · 2024Article
- Refining a Driving Retirement Program for Persons With Dementia and Their Care Partners: A Mixed Methods Evaluation of CarFreeMe™-Dementia.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2023Article
- Everyday Driving and Plasma Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Expand Our Diagnostic Toolkit.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2023Article
- Association Between Young-Onset Dementia and Risk of Hospitalization for Motor Vehicle Crash Injury in Taiwan.JAMA network open · 2022Article
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- Visual disorders and driving ability in persons with dementia: A mini review.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Review
- Cognitive Assessment Tools Recommended in Geriatric Oncology Guidelines: A Rapid Review.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2021Review
- The SIMARD-MD is not an Effective Driver Screening Tool for Determining Fitness-To-Drive.Canadian geriatrics journal : CGJ · 2021Article
- The Impact of HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Impairment on Driving Performance in Commercial Truck Drivers.AIDS and behavior · 2021Article
- A 2.5-Year Longitudinal Assessment of Naturalistic Driving in Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2019Article
- Detection of Risky Driving Behaviors in the Naturalistic Environment in Healthy Older Adults and Mild Alzheimer's Disease.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
- Proactive vs. reactive car driving: EEG evidence for different driving strategies of older drivers.PloS one · 2018Article
- [Assessment of ability to drive in patients with MCI and dementia].Der Nervenarzt · 2017Review
- Saccular Impairment in Alzheimer's Disease Is Associated with Driving Difficulty.Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders · 2017Article
- Preclinical Alzheimer's disease and longitudinal driving decline.Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) · 2017Article
- Driving with Mild Cognitive Impairment or Dementia: Cognitive Test Performance and Proxy Report of Daily Life Function in Older Women.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2015Article
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Abstract
Driving is a complex activity that always becomes impaired at some point in older adults with degenerative dementia. Over time, disruption of the visual processing circuits of the brain that link the occipital and prefrontal regions, particularly in the right hemisphere, leads to increasing degrees of driving impairment that ultimately preclude safe driving. Neuropsychological tests of visuospatial ability, executive function and attention that tap into the integrity of these brain regions provide the clinician with important information regarding the need for a formal determination of driving competence. Enhancement of cognitive function in these domains through anti-dementia therapy and exercise may partially mitigate risk; however, all drivers with dementia must ultimately retire from driving when dementia becomes moderately severe, and often in earlier stages of the illness. Future efforts to improve screening tests for hazardous driving and to develop interventions to help prolong the time that drivers with mild dementia can continue to drive safely are needed for our increasingly aged and mobile population.
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