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Driving and dementia
Driving usually has to stop at some point after a diagnosis, and the conversation is hard. The safety guide covers how to have it; below is what the studies found about driving ability and when people stop.
How to handle the driving conversation → Warning signs on the road, getting an independent driving assessment, and what to do when the person will not stop.What the research library holds
149 of the library's 27,380 studies match; 38 have it in the title. The 8 shown are the title matches first, then the highest-scoring.
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Cognitive and brain reserve predict decline in adverse driving behaviors among cognitively normal older adults
Daily driving is a multi-faceted, real-world, behavioral measure of cognitive functioning requiring multiple cognitive domains working synergistically to complete this instrumental activity of daily living.
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Practice parameter update: evaluation and management of driving risk in dementia: report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology
Systematic review of the literature using the American Academy of Neurology's evidence-based methods.
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Systematic review of driving risk and the efficacy of compensatory strategies in persons with dementia
Drivers with dementia are poorer drivers than cognitively normal drivers, but studies have not consistently demonstrated higher crash rates.
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Clinical utility of office-based cognitive predictors of fitness to drive in persons with dementia: A systematic review
Without validated cutoff scores, it is impossible to employ tests in a standardized fashion in front-line clinical settings.
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Predicting Driving Cessation Among Cognitively Normal Older Drivers: The Role of Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers and Clinical Assessments
With the aging US population and increasing incidence of Alzheimer disease (AD), understanding factors contributing to driving cessation among older adults is crucial for clinicians.
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Longitudinal driving performance in early-stage dementia of the Alzheimer type
This study provides longitudinal evidence for a decline in driving performance over time, primarily in early-stage DAT, and supports the need not only for driving assessments, but also for reevaluation of individuals with very mild and mild DAT.
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Association of Daily Driving Behaviors With Mild Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults Followed Over 10 Years
Among 298 participants (MCI, n = 56; NC, n = 242; mean age 75.1 years; 45.6% female), the groups were similar in age, sex, race, and APOE ε4 status at baseline, as well as in most driving behaviors.
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GPS driving: a digital biomarker for preclinical Alzheimer disease
The findings suggest that GPS driving may serve as an effective and accurate digital biomarker for identifying preclinical AD among older adults.
How a study gets onto this list: its own title, summary, findings or note contains one of these terms — driving (a car, not “driving force”), drivers with or who, older drivers, fitness to drive, driving cessation, on-road, motor vehicle crash. A study matched only in its text is shown with the sentence that matched, word for word. A score rates how much weight a study can bear, not whether its result is good news: how we score a study.