OLDER ADULTS AND READINESS TO CEASE DRIVING
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Marian E. Betz; David B. Carr; Annie C. Harmon; D. Kandasamy; Thomas M. Meuser
- Source
- Subject
- Gerontology
03 medical and health sciences
Abstracts
0302 clinical medicine
Health (social science)
Text mining
030214 geriatrics
business.industry
030212 general & internal medicine
Life-span and Life-course Studies
business
Psychology
Health Professions (miscellaneous)
- Language
- English
Examining older driver readiness for driving cessation may facilitate successful mobility transitions that decrease adverse outcomes like depression and social isolation. The purpose of this study was to examine associations between older driver characteristics and driving cessation readiness using the Assessment of Readiness for Mobility Transition (ARMT), a measure that evaluates attitudinal and emotional readiness for prospective mobility loss or change. The study recruited community-dwelling, English-speaking adults aged ≥65 years from three internal medicine clinics affiliated with a tertiary-care academic center; all were active drivers lacking significant cognitive impairment. Participants completed the ARMT short-form questionnaire: ARMT scores ≥29 points suggest unreadiness for driving cessation while scores