ArticleFrontiers in aging neuroscience2021
Aging Brains Degrade Driving Safety Performances of the Healthy Elderly.
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- Enhancing Driving Ability in Older Adults through Health Exercises and Physical Activity: A Randomized Controlled Trial.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Trial
- White Matter Hyperintensity Burden and Decline in Driving Performance Among Older Adults.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Cerebral gray matter volume identifies healthy older drivers with a critical decline in driving safety performance using actual vehicles on a closed-circuit course.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2025Article
- Relationship between Driving Ability and Physical Fitness Factors in Older Adults: A Multiple Linear Regression Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Uniformly positive or negative correlation of cerebral gray matter regions with driving safety behaviors of healthy older drivers.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Cortical atrophy and leukoaraiosis, imaging markers of cerebrovascular small vessel disease, are associated with driving behavior changes among cognitively normal older adults.Journal of the neurological sciences · 2023Article
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Abstract
The relationship between aging brains and driving safety performances (DSPs) of elderly drivers was studied. A total of 90 dementia-free participants (63 men and 27 women, mean age 75.31 ± 4.795 years) were recruited and their DSPs were analyzed on actual vehicles running through a closed-circuit course. DSPs were comprehensively evaluated on the basis of driving instructors' scores (DIS). Signaling and visual research behaviors, part of DSPs, were measured to supplement the DIS evaluation by driving recorders (DR) and wearable wireless sensors (WS), respectively. Aging brains were evaluated via magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings and experimentally assigned to two grades (high vs. low) of brain atrophy (BA) and leukoaraiosis (LA). Regression analyses on DIS and DR data, and logistic analysis on WS scores showed significant correlations of aging brains with degradation of DSPs. The participant group with more advanced BAs and LAs showed lower DIS, DR data, and WS scores representing degraded DSP regardless of age. These results suggest that MRI examinations from both volumetric and pathological perspectives of brains have the potential to help identify elderly drivers with dangerous driving behaviors. Brain healthcare, lifestyle improvements and medical treatments to suppress BA and LA, may contribute to preventing DSP degradation of elderly drivers with aging brains.
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