Getting older does not necessarily mean a person’s driving days are over. But it is important to plan ahead and take steps to ensure the safety of your loved ones on the road.
The NHTSA also offers free materials to help you learn more about how to recognize and discuss changes in your older loved one’s driving.
Resources for People Around Older Drivers
- Adapting Motor Vehicles for Older Drivers
Evaluate your needs, making sure the vehicle “fits” you properly, choosing appropriate features, installing and knowing how to use adaptive devices, practicing good vehicle maintenance. - How to Understand and Influence Older Drivers
Talking with an older person about their driving is often difficult. Most of us delay that talk until the person’s driving has become what we believe to be dangerous. At that point, conversations can be tense and awkward for everyone involved. But there are things you can say and do to make those conversations more productive and less tense. - Driving Safely While Aging Gracefully
How do you assess whether physical changes are affecting your driving skills?
- Family and Friends Concerned About an Older Driver To provide families, friends, healthcare providers, law enforcement personnel, and community and social services with information to assist older adults whose capabilities make them potentially unsafe to drive.
- Safe Driving for Older Adults
Helpful tips about coping with these changes are also provided so that you can remain a safe driver for as long as possible. - Driving Transition Education
Tools, scripts, and practice exercises to prepare professionals for effective conversations about driver safety and community mobility issues with older adults, their families, and concerned community members
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