Improving the Safety of Older Road Users

Improving the Safety of Older Road Users

Author: Jane C. Stutts

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 0309097525

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TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 348: Improving the Safety of Older Road Users examines programs and policies in place across the country to improve the safety and mobility of older road users. The report documents a range of strategies and related programs under way in roadway engineering, driver licensing, public information and education, and enforcement and adjudication.


Maintaining Safe Mobility in an Aging Society

Maintaining Safe Mobility in an Aging Society

Author: David W. Eby

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2008-12-22

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1420064541

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By 2030, 20 percent of the world's drivers, 60 million in all, will be over the age of 65. Consequently, safe and efficient mobility for older adults is a complex and pressing issue. Maintaining Safe Mobility in an Aging Society addresses the complexities surrounding the booming number of aging drivers and practical solutions for sustaining safe tr


Perspectives and Strategies for Promoting Safe Transportation Among Older Adults

Perspectives and Strategies for Promoting Safe Transportation Among Older Adults

Author: David W. Eby

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2018-11-27

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 0128123265

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Promoting Safe Transportation among Older Adults: Perspectives and Strategies provides a concise, comprehensive, and up-to-date resource on safe mobility for an aging population. The book offers an interdisciplinary perspective for understanding and influencing the behavior of older adults with regard to their safe transportation. It is organized around the professions and disciplines that have a stake in the safe transportation of older adults and the role they play at each stage of their mobility needs. The book also addresses the various strategies that have been used to help keep older adults safe and mobile. Readers will find great insights on key issues related to aging and mobility, giving them an overarching framework for how to maintain safe mobility into older adulthood. The book enables readers to understand the perspectives of the critical groups of people involved in keeping older people safe and explores existing strategies by which an aging individual can maintain safe mobility. Utilizes a multidisciplinary, evidence-based approach for examining the complexities of transportation for older adults Offers an integrated, overarching narrative for understanding the key issues of safety and mobility in our aging society Written by leading transportation and health scholars Offers insights into the perspectives of all the stakeholders, such as hands-on transportation and health practitioners, students of varying levels, researchers and policymakers


Mobility and Transportation in the Elderly

Mobility and Transportation in the Elderly

Author: K. Warner Schaie, PhD

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

Published: 2000-03-10

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0826116760

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This comprehensive volume examines the gradual reduction of mobility in the elderly. The authors first review the physiological and psychological changes that occur as we age, and go on to illustrate how this gradual decrease in adequate mobility can lead to an increase in automotive accidents. They also review the limitations that mass transportation systems and driving individual vehicles present for the elderly, and discuss different assistive devices that have been and should be implemented to help improve mobility. Each chapter ends with insightful commentaries by specialists in the gerontology field. This book is a must read for gerontologists as well as policy makers and educators on courses in organizational structures of social policy.


Ageing and Transport Mobility Needs and Safety Issues

Ageing and Transport Mobility Needs and Safety Issues

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2001-10-25

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 9264195858

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This report on the mobility needs and safety problems of ageing populations dispels many of the myths and misperceptions commonly held regarding elderly road users, and offers policy and research recommendations to provide for their safe, lifelong mobility.