Majority of older adults with cognitive impairment still drive [article]
Majority of older adults with cognitive impairment still drive [article]
The majority of older adults with cognitive impairment are still driving, despite concerns raised by caregivers and others, a Michigan Medicine study in a South Texas community finds.
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I recently saw some numbers, published by an automobile club, that suggested drivers over the age of 70 are involved in only 13% of crashes. My first thought was, that number is only that low because every other driver is already very cautious around old people in cars. And they usually drive rather slow. Still no reason to defend older people in death machines.
also probably they drive less, as they're likely to no longer be working for a living and so don't commute?
Yeah, that number is kinda meaningless without the context of how many road kilometers/hours people over 70 are doing in comparison to the number of crashes
Yep. To the supermarket twice a week, and to church on Sunday, and that's it. No commute, no mom-bus, no driving for work. Basically off the road for good, and still involved in 13% of all accidents.
You are right! I didn’t even thought that far. It just made me kind of mad.
Accidents per 1000km would be a much better metric. Or km/accident. Both say pretty much the same thing but have different readability.
Just put them into relation with factors like "distance driven", and the picture turns upside down.
Suddenly, the old people who don't commute daily or drive children around to school and other activities like younger people do, but only drive to the supermarket twice a week and to church on Sunday end up in a different place on the statistics.