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American Automobile Association ("AAA")
Foundation for Traffic Safety Senior Driver Website |
AARP
(formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons)
A nonprofit membership organization dedicated to addressing the needs and interests of persons 50 and older. Through information and education, advocacy and service, AARP seeks to enhance the quality of life for all by promoting independence, dignity and purpose. |
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AARP Drivers Safety Program
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Administration on Aging
A collection of links and resources for seniors. |
AgeNet
Making the "Key" Decision Article By Rod Clark
When should an older adult surrender their keys? Includes assessment and checklist, and methods to handle asking senior drivers to give up driving |
Alzheimer's, Dimentia, and Driving
This is a booklet on Alzheimer's disease and dementia, and how such degenerative diseases affect older person's ability to drive. Also includes a "contract" for the elderly person to complete with his/her family on driving. |
American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators
Homepage of the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, a tax-exempt, nonprofit organization striving to develop model programs in motor vehicle administration, police traffic services and highway safety. AAMVA is an educational organization which represents the state and provincial officials in the United States and Canada who administer and enforce motor vehicle laws. |
American Association of State Highways and Transportation Officials
The goal of the Strategic Highway Safety Plan is to reduce the annual number of highway deaths by 5,000 to 7,000 and to do so cost effectively and in a manner acceptable to the general public. The site contains a fully searchable database about the many publications, programs and people concerned with highway safety. Users can also find current research on issues not directly related to the Safety Plan as well as national and statewide highway safety legislation. |
American Highway Users Alliance
Homepage of the American Highway Users Alliance, also known as "The Highway Users". Organization dedicated to promoting and defending the role of motor vehicle transportation in providing U.S. mobility, economic growth, productivity improvements, defense, safety and individual freedom of choice. |
American Occupational Therapy
Description, background, and registration information on the American Occupational Therapy Association's Older Driver Screening and Evaluation online course. Available to registered participants 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, for 2 years (May 2003-May 2005). The exam is also available online at all times throughout the course. |
Beverly Foundation
Homepage of the Beverly Foundation, which is an independent operating foundation, emphasizing research, demonstration and education efforts that contribute to the ability of older adults to continue living in the community as long as possible. The Beverly Foundation targets an audience of professionals, caregivers, family members and seniors themselves. |
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Homepage for the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, a statistical agency established for data collection, analysis, reporting, and to ensure the most cost-effective use of transportation-monitoring resources. |
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Center for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control Older Adult Drivers webpage. Containing older driver facts, ooccurences risk and protective factors of senior drivers. |
Community Transportation Association
Homepage of the Community Transportation Association, a national, professional membership association of organizations and individuals committed to removing barriers to isolation and to improving mobility for all people. |
Demand for Alternative Transportation to Grow
As Americans Outlive Safe Driving Ability
Article advocating for additional means of transportation for seniors. |
Dimentia and Driving (University of Calgary)
Two articles on older drivers and dementia/Alzheimer's disease. |
Easter Seals
Web page devoted to Transportation Solutions for Caregivers. Contains information on prevention of and ways to deal with agitation, as well as resources and product information. |
Federal Transit Administration
Homepage of the Federal Transit Administration, containing information on public transit transportation and relevant news. |
FirstGov for Seniors
Empowering citizens to obtain valuable health and security information and services at one location via the Internet. This is a U.S. government run web site. |
Full Circle of Care
A list of other websites which discuss driving safety as it relates to family members who are aging. How's My Driving? - A pdf file featuring a senior program sponsored by hows.com (How's my driving. Com). The brochure also describes ten steps seniors may follow in the program to better monitor their driving. |
Independent Transportation Network
Homepage of the Independent Transportation Network, a non-profit transportation service for seniors and people with visual impairments. Developed through research funded by the Federal Transit Administration, AARP, and the Transportation Research Board, the ITN is a model for consumer-oriented, community-based senior transit. The ITN incorporates the efficiency of mass transit through shared rides and advance planning. |
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is a nonprofit research and communications organization funded by auto insurers. For over 30 years the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has been a leader in finding out what works and doesn't work to prevent motor vehicle crashes in the first place and reduce injuries in the crashes that still occur. The Institute's research focuses on countermeasures aimed at all three factors in motor vehicle crashes (human, vehicular, and environmental) and on interventions that can occur before, during, and after crashes to reduce losses. |
Intervale Senior Services
YWCA of San Gabriel Valley's Intervale Senior Services page. Since 1986, Intervale Senior Services Program has helped the YWCA of San Gabriel Valley reach out and embrace the aging members of the community with compassion and support, providing meals and a variety of other services to qualifying seniors in English, Spanish, or Mandarin Chinese. |
LA4Seniors
Dangerous driving and seniors section contains a plethora of tips to help seniors recognize when their driving skills are eroding. Also offers advice on nationwide programs to help senior drivers extend their "driving lifespan". Includes help for obtaining due process with the California DMV. |
Model Driver Screening and Evaluation Program
Three-volume document describing a model for new driver screening and evaluation program for older people. |
National Eye Institute
Homepage of the National Eye Institute (NEI), established by Congress in 1968 to protect and prolong the vision of the American people. As one of the Federal government's National Institutes of Health (NIH), the NEI conducts and supports research that helps prevent and treat eye diseases and other disorders of vision. This research leads to sight-saving treatments, reduces visual impairment and blindness, and improves the quality of life for people of all ages. NEI-supported research has advanced our knowledge of how the visual system functions in health and disease. |
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Homepage of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), under the U.S. Department of Transportation. NHTSA is responsible for reducing deaths, injuries and economic losses resulting from motor vehicle crashes. This is accomplished by setting and enforcing safety performance standards for motor vehicles and motor vehicle equipment, and through grants to state and local governments to enable them to conduct effective local highway safety programs. And also conducts research on driver behavior and traffic safety , to develop the most efficient and effective means of bringing about safety improvements. |
National Institute on Aging's "Age Page"
Age page from the National Institute on Aging provides statistics, information on senior driving, and links to other resources on aging. |
Physician's Guide to Assessing and Counseling Older Drivers
American Medical Association guidelines for physicians to help them medically assess the ability of older drivers to continue driving. Includes current screening laws and regulations from all 50 states (May 2003) as well as a comprehensive list of diseases which may impair driving. |
Safe Roads for Seniors
A site advocating infrastructure changes to existing roadways to prevent accidents involving senior citizens, as opposed to limiting senior's driving. Provides information to contact local legislatures, Congress and other representatives. |
Safe Senior Citizen Driving
Guide from helpguide.org on safe senior driving tips, a few statistics on senior drivers, and provides links to other senior driving sites. |
Shepherd's Centers of America
Homepage of Shepherd's Centers of America (SCA). An interfaith, not-for-profit umbrella organization that coordinates nearly 100 independent Shepherd's Centers throughout the United States. The primary purpose of a Shepherd's Center is to enrich the later years with opportunities for service to others, self-expression, meaningful work, and close friendships. An equally important goal is to help older adults remain independent in their own living situation as long as they choose. |
Taxicab, Limousine and Paratransit Association
Homepage of the Taxicab, Limousine & Paratransit Association (TLPA), a non-profit trade association of and for the private passenger transportation industry. Their extensive membership spans the globe to include 1,100 taxicab companies, executive sedan and limousine services, airport shuttle fleets, non-emergency medical transportation companies, and paratransit services. |
The Roadway Safety Foundation
Homepage of the Roadway Safety Foundation (RSF), one of the few national organizations solely dedicated to reducing highway deaths and injuries by improving the physical characteristics of America's roadways - design and engineering, operating conditions, removal of roadside hazards, and the effective use of safety features. RSF works to attain its goals by building awareness through media campaigns and outreach activities, developing educational materials and forming roadway safety partnerships between the private and public sectors. It is a private non-profit 501(c)(3) organization chartered in 1997 by the American Highway Users Alliance. |
Transportation Research Board
Homepage of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), a unit of the National Research Council, a private, nonprofit institution that is the principal operating agency of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. The Board's mission is to promote innovation and progress in transportation by stimulating and conducting research, facilitating the dissemination of information, and encouraging the implementation of research results. |
Travel Reimbursement and Information Program (T.R.I.P.)
(Riverside County, CA)
Homepage of Living Partnership's T.R.I.P. program, TRIP is short for the Transportation Reimbursement and Information Project. TRIP is an award winning, nationally acclaimed, social transportation program that compliments rail, fixed route and special public transportation services to the elderly and disabled in Riverside County, California. |
Understanding Senior Transportation
Report and Analysis of a Survey of Consumers 50+. AARP report on senior driving and transportation changes. |
US Department of Transportation
Homepage of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), a part of the Department of Transportation headquartered in Washington, D.C., with field offices across the United States. The FHWA performs its mission through providing federal financial assistance to the States to construct and improve the National Highway System, urban and rural roads, and bridges. The program provides funds for general improvements and development of safe highways and roads. And by providing access to and within national forests, national parks, Indian reservations and other public lands by preparing plans, letting contracts, supervising construction facilities, and conducting bridge inspections and surveys. |
