Everyone Rides: Transportation Access for Culturally and Ethnically Diverse Elders

This booklet from the National Center on Safe Transportation is a starting point for discussion of the challenges involved in addressing the mobility needs of diverse elders and contains recommendations for action developed by a national coalition convened by the NCST.

http://seniortransportation.easterseals.com/site/DocServer/Everyone_Rides.pdf?docID=113443

Can older drivers be nudged? How the public and private sectors can influence older drivers’ self-regulation

This report, published February 2011 from the International Longevity Centre, considers how interventions, or ‘nudges’, based around insights from behavioural economics and psychology can be used to assist older
drivers in coping with the ageing process.

Today’s older people are driving further and more often than previous cohorts. Clearly, cars are vital for mobility. Maintaining mobility in later life helps to delay the physical and mental decline associated with ageing, and is crucial for maintaining access to services, social connectivity, and fulfilling the various
routines of daily life. In being available at any hour, and providing door-to-door transport, cars offer benefits that would be impossible for public transport to fully replace. While there is no evidence that older drivers per se are less safe behind the wheel, there are questions regarding the road safety of older drivers.
Physiological (including visual) and cognitive decline is certainly part of the ageing process, and may therefore impact on driving unless the right support systems are in place.

http://www.racfoundation.org/assets/rac_foundation/content/downloadables/older_drivers_nudge-main_report-berry.pdf

Evaluation and Management of Driving Risk in Dementia

The American Academy of Neurology is publishing an update to their practice guideline on evaluating and managing driving risk in dementia in the April 20, 2010 issue of the journal Neurology.

The guideline may be accessed at the following:
http://www.neurology.org/cgi/rapidpdf/WNL.0b013e3181da3b0fv1.pdf

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

Creating Age Friendly Environments Fact Sheet - a resource for designers, developers, planners, architects and engineers.

A new fact sheet from the Council on Ageing (NSW), Australia addressed three key areas in bringing about Age Friendly Environments and pulls together available resources.

• Transport
• Urban Planning
• Design and Housing

http://www.cotansw.com.au/resources/8/Creating%20Age%20Friendly%20Environments%20COTA%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf