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| The assessment of fitness to drive in people with dementia | | Author(s) | Nadina B Lincoln, Kate A Radford, Elizabeth Lee |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 21, no 11, November 2006 |
| Pages | pp 1044-1051 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Driving capability ; Evaluation ; Nottingham ; Chesterfield. |
| Annotation | 42 people with dementia and 33 healthy older people with no known memory problems who were driving were compared for driving ability on quiet and busy roads in Nottingham or Chesterfield. Of those with dementia, 37 were assessed on the road. A second sample of 17 people with dementia was also assessed on the road. A range of other assessments were carried out: Stroke Drivers Screening Assessment; Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE); Salford Objective Recognition Test; Stroop Test; Test of Everyday Attention; Visual Object and Space Perception Battery; Behavioural Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome; and Adult Memory and Information Processing Battery. All healthy older volunteers were safe to drive, but 10 of patients with dementia were unsafe. Discriminant function analysis identified a combination of tests which correctly classified 92% of drivers with dementia as safe or unsafe. Thus, safety to drive in people with dementia could be predicted from a combination of six cognitive tests. These correctly identified 67% of safe drivers in a validation sample. The assessment could only be used to identify those who need evidence of their safety on the road. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-061213208 A |
| Classmark | EA: OPF: 4C: 8NTF: 8DBC |
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