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| Self-reported health and driving cessation in community-dwelling older drivers | | Author(s) | Richard V Sims, Ali Ahmed, Patricia Sawyer |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, vol 62A, no 7, July 2007 |
| Pages | pp 789-793 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Driving capability ; Health [elderly] ; Living in the community ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Data collected for the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Study on Aging (SOA), a longitudinal study of community-dwelling adults' mobility, was used to determine whether self-rated health (SRH) was an independent predictor of driving cessation in older people. Data on SRH, medical diagnoses, physical performance, visual acuity, driving status and other relevant covariates were gathered during in-home interviews with 649 community-dwelling older Alabama drivers. Multivariate logistic regression was used to estimate the association of SRH with driver cessation 2 years later. Participants had mean age of 74 (43% women, 41% African American, and 48% rural). Overall, 36% reported poor to fair SRH at baseline, and 11% had stopped driving after 2 years. Compared to 8% of drivers with good to excellent SRH, 17% with poor to fair health stopped driving. Lower Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) scores and older age were also associated with driving cessation. Receiver operating characteristics curves documented similar predictive discrimination for SRH, the SPPB and a count of comorbidities based on the Charlson Comorbidity Index. Poor to fair SRH predicted incident driver cessation after 2 years. SRH can be easily obtained during clinic visits to identify at risk drivers. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080305203 A |
| Classmark | OPF: CC: K4: 3J: 7T |
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