@article{ref1,
title="Driving cessation: what older former drivers tell us",
journal="Journal of the American Geriatrics Society",
year="2001",
author="Dellinger, Ann M. and Sehgal, Meena and Sleet, David A. and Barrett-Connor, Elizabeth",
volume="49",
number="4",
pages="431-435",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: To understand why older drivers living in a community setting stop driving. <br><br>DESIGN: A cross-sectional study within a longitudinal cohort. SETTING: A geographically defined community in southern California. PARTICIPANTS: 1,950 respondents age 55 and older who reported ever being licensed drivers. MEASUREMENTS: A mailed survey instrument of self-reported driving habits linked to prior demographic, health, and medical information. <br><br>RESULTS: Of the 1,950 eligible respondents, 141 had stopped driving within the previous 5 years. Among those who stopped, mean age was 85.5 years, 65.2% were female, and the majority reported they were in very good (43.4%) or good (34.0%) health. Nearly two-thirds reported driving less than 50 miles per week prior to stopping and 12.1% reported a motor vehicle crash during the previous 5 years. The most common reasons reported for stopping were medical (41.0%) and age-related (19.4%). In bivariate analyses, age and miles driven per week were each associated with cessation (P≤.001). Medical conditions, crashes in the previous 5 years, and gender did not reach statistical significance at the P≤.05 level. Logistic regression results found that the number of medical conditions was inversely associated with driving cessation. <br><br>CONCLUSION: The relationship between medical conditions and driving is complex; while medical conditions were the most common reason given for driving cessation, those who stopped had fewer medical conditions than current drivers. This suggests that a broader measure of general health or functional ability may play a dominant role in decisions to stop driving.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0002-8614",
doi="10.1046/j.1532-5415.2001.49087.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1532-5415.2001.49087.x"
}