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Assessing Fitness to Drive in Patients With Different Types of Dementia.
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- Driving and Alzheimer's dementia or mild cognitive impairment: a systematic review of the existing guidelines emphasizing on the neurologist's role.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2021Pooled it
- Visual dysfunction in dementia with Lewy bodies.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2024Review
- Driving Assessment for Persons with Dementia: How and when?Aging and disease · 2023Review
- Clinical Tests Predicting On-Road Performance in Older Drivers with Cognitive Impairment.Canadian journal of occupational therapy. Revue canadienne d'ergotherapie · 2023Article
- Age-Related Diseases and Driving Safety.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- A Systematic Review Examining Associations between Cardiovascular Conditions and Driving Outcomes among Older Drivers.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- The MMSE should not be the sole indicator of fitness to drive in mild Alzheimer's dementia.Acta neurologica Belgica · 2018Article
- Adherence to driving cessation advice given to patients with cognitive impairment and consequences for mobility.BMC geriatrics · 2018Article
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Abstract
Dementia is a risk factor for unsafe driving. Therefore, an assessment strategy has recently been developed for the prediction of fitness to drive in patients with the Alzheimer disease (AD). The aim of this study was to investigate whether this strategy is also predictive of fitness to drive in patients with non-AD dementia, that is, vascular dementia, frontotemporal dementia, and dementia with Lewy bodies. Predictors were derived from 3 types of assessment: clinical interviews, neuropsychological tests, and driving simulator rides. The criterion was the pass-fail outcome of an official on-road driving assessment. About half of the patients with non-AD dementia (n=34) failed the on-road driving assessment. Neuropsychological assessment [area under the curve (AUC)=0.786] was significantly predictive of fitness to drive in patients with non-AD dementia, however, clinical interviews (AUC=0.559) and driving simulator rides (AUC=0.404) were not. The fitness-to-drive assessment strategy with the 3 types of assessment combined (AUC=0.635) was not found to significantly predict fitness to drive in non-AD dementia. Different types of dementia require different measures and assessment strategies.
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