Epidemiology of Elderly Driving Safety

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Ball, K., Edwards, JD, Ross, LA, and McGwin, G. (2010) Cognitive Training Decreases Motor Vehicle Collision Involvement of Older Drivers. The American Geriatrics Society. Journal Compilation. 58:2107-2113.

The work of Ball, Edwards, Ross and McGwin (2010) reports a randomized, controlled, multisite, single-blind clinical trial in a community of seniors in four cities in the United States including Birmingham, Alabama; Baltimore, Maryland, Indianapolis, Indiana, and State College, Pennsylvania. The mean age of drivers in the study was 73.1 years of age with 18.6% of the drivers being African-American. The intervention reported in this study was that of cognitive training for memory, reasoning and speed of processing. Measures used were stated-recorded MVC involvement up to six years following study enrollment. The results reported by the study include that the interventions employed resulted in a 50% decrease (per person-mile) of "at-fault MVCs than the control group."...
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