The American Medical Association an...

The American Medical Association and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration have released a comprehensive guide to help physicians preserve their older patients driving safely. "Physician's Guide to Assessing and Counseling Older Drivers" is available online at http://www.ama-assn.org/go/olderdrivers.

Statistics exhibit to that while older drivers have the lowest crash rate of all age arranges older drivers have a significantly higher fatality rate by mile driven than other adult drivers. forward the basis of estimated annual travel, the fatality rate for drivers 85 years and older is nine times higher than the fatality rate for drivers 25 to 69 years of age.

The 226-page guide is based forward extensive research, scientific evidence, and clinical consensus. The guide includes information upon office-based assessments of functional abilities related to driving, recommendations for counseling patients in succession retiring from driving, legal and ethical issues onward the management of unsafe drivers, a state-by-state allusion list of driver licensing requirements and physician reporting laws, a respect table of medical conditions and medications that may impair driving, and educational handouts for patients and transactioned family members.

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