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Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Love of Care: Transportation as We Age

The Minnesota Gerontological Society (MGS) has co-produced with Twin Cities Public Television (TPT) a one-hour documentary aimed at raising awareness and stimulating dialogue in the State about older driver and community mobility issues.

The documentary includes interviews of seniors who live in rural as well as urban areas and are either contemplating driving cessation, or have already gone through that transition. It weaves those stories with interviews of experts and demonstrations of solutions. The focus of the documentary is on the following four issues:

  • How to determine if you're a safe driver
  • Personal strategies to increase your safe driving years
  • Ways to adapt vehicles to allow safe driving longer
  • Who should be involved in deciding when a person should stop driving
  • How to locate and promote alternate transportation options

This documentary is aimed at stimulating dialogue about solutions to community mobility issues for older adults. It features interviews of seniors living in rural as well as urban areas who are in the process of driving cessation, or have already gone through that transition. It weaves those stories with interviews of experts and demonstrations of solutions.

http://www.mngero.org/academics/loveofcar.html

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