[DUMBGRUNT]

Renew your driver's license and a mandatory dementia test!

For your own good. If it saves just one life!

[Mr. Rabbit]

Yeah, that’s not going to be abused...

[DannyTN]

You might have dimentia if...

[DannyTN]

[HandyDandy]

If you are looking to see dementia on the roadways, just take a drive on Rt 95 in the Miami area.

[Leaning Right]

I’ve read that a good test for dementia is the clock test. Draw a circle, then put a dot in the center. Do not put in any numbers. Then ask the subject to draw the hour and second hands to match a time, say 4:45.

Is this a good test for early dementia? I don’t know. I’m just passing it along.

[ZOOKER]

I always knew my phone was secretly spying on me.

It knows where I am at any time, and who I call. Its mike can be turned on remotely to record any conversation I might have.
Soon it will be monitoring my temperature, breathing, my driving habits, blood chemistry, whatever.
When it tells me I'm not eating my vegetables, that's when I get violent.

[G Larry]

My Church, Bank, Grocery store, shooting range, Sam's club, gas station, hardware store, shopping mall, are ALL within 15 miles of home ROUND TRIP!

AND, I'm retired, so that data point is BOGUS!

[T.B. Yoits]

Detecting early signs of dementia by driving behavior?
If that's the case, there are drivers near me who have dementia in their 20s, 30s, and 40s.

[DeFault User]

Cognitive decline isn’t the only factor in bad driving by old folks. Our family finally took the keys away from my aunt when she was 85 and still driving to work.

She was sharp as a tack even into her 90s but her eyesight was terrible. She would pull out into traffic not even noticing the other cars. We told her if you don’t care about yourself at least consider the other people you might kill or injure permanently. That finally got through to her.

[Stosh]

“Early signs of dementia can be detected by tracking driving behaviors”

Early signs of dementia can qualify you for free room and board at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

[Steely Tom]

Early signs of dementia can be detected by tracking driving behaviors

Also by observing your "trolling for chicks" behaviors.

[PUGACHEV]

In the '80s I was once talking to a well regarded neurologist who was on the teaching staff at a local medical college, and who had a national reputation for having written several popular books on the subject. He told me then that one could diagnose many neurological problems and deficits from just observing a subject's driving behavior.

I have always believed this, and I have never been shy about calling those who obstruct my passage with their poor driving "morons".

[absalom01]

...a number of driving variables closely followed. These include, “the percentage of trips traveled within 15 miles (24 km) of home … the length of trips starting and ending at home, minutes per trip, and number of hard braking events with deceleration rates ≥ 0.35 g.

This conforms with my personal observations as some of my family members aged. There's clearly a sense that develops of a loss of confidence, and awareness that one is "losing one's edge", manifest in part by a reluctance to drive too far away, or to new places.

Getting them to give up the car keys is still a trial though.

[jmacusa]

I’m over sixty and I drive around with my left blinker going all the time.

Do I qualify?

[bgill]

Sure, send all those probable dementia drivers out onto the road.

[MarvinStinson]

What does Dementia Joe think of this?

[1Old Pro]

number of hard braking events

Which also detects millennials, texting of course, then looking up.

[SamAdams76]

If you are wearing a hat in the car, you are likely too old to drive.

[DAC21]

Do they still let JoeK Bimentia behind the wheel of his Vett?