Tag: elderly driving

Healthy Older Drivers Make Mistakes Too

According to an article in MSNBC from My Health News Daily, a new study suggests that aging is associated with an increase in crucial driving mistakes, even among healthy people with safe driving records. The oldest people, between ages 85 and 89, made four times as many critical errors in...

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When Boomers Must Take the Wheel (from Mom or Dad)

The following is reprinted with permission from Frontline Geriatric Care Management My company, Partners In Care, recently encountered a challenging situation. I received the following call from a client’s daughter: “Dad’s driving skills are getting worse. I’m afraid he’s going to hurthimself or someone else. I don’t think he should...

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