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The Safety of Elderly Drivers - Yesterday's Young in Today's Traffic (Hardcover)
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The Safety of Elderly Drivers - Yesterday's Young in Today's Traffic (Hardcover)
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By the turn of the century, the elderly will comprise about 20
percent of the population in North" America, and 28 percent of
those who drive. Place this percentage in high-powered automobiles,
and the need for planning and policy development becomes evident.
Most standard research on elderly drivers has not gone beyond
gathering data on specific situations or characteristics. This book
rises beyond simple statistical presentation. It blends
sociological insight with statistical detail to produce an
absorbing description of the elderly drivers' daily lives, driving
styles, experiences with accident and injury, social relationships,
and life aspirations. It also describes areas of neglect: imagined
and real health problems, driving exposure and traffic violations,
accidents, and loss of self-esteem. It presents in-depth accounts
of the trauma of loss of license and the importance of the
automobile for sustaining mental, physical, and social well-being.
The self-imposed or self-defined rules elderly drivers use to
navigate traffic or compensate for physical frailities are
described in depth.The Safety of Elderly Drivers includes
penetrating comments from elderly drivers who have been involved in
serious accidents, and from random elderly drivers speaking for
their generation of drivers. Integrating statistical findings based
on Motor Vehicle Department accident data and survey data with
comprehensive interviews and discussions with elderly drivers, the
book provides an emperically grounded, in-depth view of the elderly
driver today. Rothe summarizes theories and models of aging, along
with past research on elderly drivers, projecting what the future
may hold if present trends in medicine, housing, politics,
migration, and mass transit continue. It closes with a series of
recommendations for future traffic planning. This book will be of
interest to policymakers concerned with traffic safety, as well as
social scientists and others interested in gerontological issues.
It is the latest in a series on traffic safety sponsored by the
Insurance Corporation of British Columbia in Canada.
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