Posted on 01/08/2025 7:26:28 AM PST by SeekAndFind
There are approximately 48 million licensed drivers aged 65 and older in the United States, with around 17 percent of seniors suffering from mild cognitive impairment, according to a StudyFinds.org.
This situation presents a considerable challenge in ensuring road safety while also preserving the independence of older adults.
According to an analysis conducted by researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, the healthcare system must improve its monitoring and evaluation of older adults who are still licensed to drive.
The statistics are alarming: Motor vehicle crashes involving drivers over 65 resulted in 7,480 fatalities and nearly 150,000 non-fatal injuries in 2020.
Family physicians often find themselves in a difficult position when asked to evaluate an older patient’s driving ability. Current cognitive screening tests are inadequate, and specialists also struggle with these assessments.
My ABSOLUTE pet peeve. Leave the damn dog at home or restrain it in a seat. And spare me with the “emotional support” stuff. If you need that much support, let somebody else drive.
/rant
An inquiry to ChatGPT
At what speed should people stop driving.
Answer: 45. Any speed above that can cause a person to age quickly.
I have an emotional support hippopotamus. It has only killed a few people so far. I take it on flights. Don't you judge me!
One of the advantages of being retired when older is when conditions are bad you don’t have to commute.
That has got to prevent a lot of accidents all by itself.
Well, you’ve always been very hip(po)...
Just don't call me a RHINO.
When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.
The concept was that you are more vulnerable to disability or death if in a wreck at 75 than if you are 24. But if you are 24, you are more likely to cause the wreck.
It’s not a silly GPT answer. Makes perfect sense.
What GPT does NOT say, but what is clearly true, is that the danger to the 78 year old driver is mostly to him or herself. Not to someone else, as is so for the 22 year old driver.
I remember in high school being told to go to the grocery store with her. She had a 71 Pontiac Tempest, she was 89 give or take and just at 5’ tall. I was 16. After getting groceries she backed oou of the parking spot and backed into car. She put it in drive and started to drive away. I said Nan, you just hit that car.... she continued driving and simply said, I didn’t hit it that hard.
The real problem here in Houston is young illegal aliens racing around in rice-burners with blacked out windows and no tags and no insurance, no Licence, never learned to drive
Literally millions of them on the road every day.
I like my Rhino though the monkeys got to it first and screwed up the drivetrain.
RE: LIVE ALONE RURAL
Well there you go. Driving there is vastly different than driving in New York or Los Ángeles
Seems to me that young drivers are much more Hazardous than the elderly. I wonder what the numbers are?
Or with the left blinker always going.
The article isn't about illegals, so I wouldn't expect that.
It is about unsafe elderly drivers, so I would expect some data that shows that is a significant issue (compared to other age groups,) I don't see that.
“Healthcare” Nazis-izm✖️
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