Skip Navigation


Age and Ageing Advance Access originally published online on May 11, 2005
Age and Ageing 2005 34(4):363-368; doi:10.1093/ageing/afi090
This Article
Right arrow FREE Full Text (PDF) Freely available
Right arrow Supplementary data
Right arrow All Versions of this Article:
34/4/363    most recent
afi090v1
Right arrow E-letters: Submit a response
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when E-letters are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in ISI Web of Science
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Search for citing articles in:
ISI Web of Science (1)
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Disclaimer
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Talbot, A.
Right arrow Articles by O’Neill, D.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Talbot, A.
Right arrow Articles by O’Neill, D.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Geriatrics Society. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oupjournals.org

Research Paper

Driving cessation in patients attending a memory clinic

Ana Talbot1, Irene Bruce2, Conal J. Cunningham2, Robert F. Coen2, Brian A. Lawlor2, Davis Coakley2, J. B. Walsh2 and Desmond O’Neill3

1 Stobhill Hospital, Medicine for the Elderly, Glasgow, UK
2 St James’s Hospital, Mercer’s Institute for Research on Ageing, Dublin, Ireland
3 Adelaide and Meath Hospitals, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, Dublin, Ireland

Address correspondence to: A. Talbot. Email: ana.talbot{at}northglasgow.scot.nhs.uk

Abstract

Background: driving is an increasingly important form of transport for older people. Dementia is common in later life and will eventually lead to driving cessation, which reduces the public health risk of impaired driving but also impairs access to services. The factors associated with driving cessation in dementia are uncertain.

Objective: to examine the demographic, psychometric and personal factors associated with driving cessation in patients attending a memory clinic in a European setting.

Design, subjects and setting: a retrospective study of 430 consecutive patients referred over a 21 month period to the memory clinic at a university teaching hospital.

Methods: the data collected included a questionnaire administered to their carers regarding demographic and personal fac-tors as well as driving practices. All subjects had standardised neuropsychological and functional assessments. Dementia diagnosis was recorded using DSM IV criteria.

Results: driving cessation in this population was associated with poorer cognitive and functional status, older age, and living in the city. Of those studied, 22% continued to drive: 63% of these were driving daily, 71% were driving unaccompanied and 31% reported an accident. There was no difference in the neuropsychological testing between those who reported an accident and those who did not report an accident.

Conclusions: driving cessation was affected not only by psychometric performance but also by demographic and personal factors.

Keywords: automobile driving, cognitive disorders, dementia, aged, elderly

Received August 13, 2004; Revision received March 9, 2005. accepted in revised form March 9, 2005.


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 J Geriatr Psychiatry NeurolHome page
S. Lafont, B. Laumon, C. Helmer, J.-F. Dartigues, and C. Fabrigoule
Driving Cessation and Self-Reported Car Crashes in Older Drivers: The Impact of Cognitive Impairment and Dementia in a Population-Based Study
J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol, September 1, 2008; 21(3): 171 - 182.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 AM J ALZHEIMERS DIS OTHER DEMENHome page
N. K. LoConte, C. E. Gleason, G. Gunter-Hunt, C. M. Carlsson, and M. Siebers
Standardized Note Template Improves Screening of Firearm Access and Driving Among Veterans With Dementia
American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias, August 1, 2008; 23(4): 313 - 318.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 CMAJHome page
N. Herrmann, M. J. Rapoport, R. Sambrook, R. Hebert, P. McCracken, A. Robillard, and for the Canadian Outcomes Study in Dementia (COSID
Predictors of driving cessation in mild-to-moderate dementia.
Can. Med. Assoc. J., September 12, 2006; 175(6): 591 - 595.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]


Disclaimer: Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.