Perspectives and Strategies for Promoting Safe Transportation Among Older Adults

Promoting Safe Transportation among Older Adults: Perspectives and Strategies provides a concise, comprehensive, and up-to-date resource on safe mobility for an aging population. The book offers an interdisciplinary perspective for understanding and influencing the behavior of older adults with regard to their safe transportation. It is organized around the professions and disciplines that have a stake in the safe transportation of older adults and the role they play at each stage of their mobility needs. The book also addresses the various strategies that have been used to help keep older adults safe and mobile.

Readers will find great insights on key issues related to aging and mobility, giving them an overarching framework for how to maintain safe mobility into older adulthood. The book enables readers to understand the perspectives of the critical groups of people involved in keeping older people safe and explores existing strategies by which an aging individual can maintain safe mobility.

Utilizes a multidisciplinary, evidence-based approach for examining the complexities of transportation for older adultsOffers an integrated, overarching narrative for understanding the key issues of safety and mobility in our aging societyWritten by leading transportation and health scholarsOffers insights into the perspectives of all the stakeholders, such as hands-on transportation and health practitioners, students of varying levels, researchers and policymakers

PART 1: BACKGROUND 1. The problem 2. Driving patterns and behaviors among older adults 3. Use of non-driving transportation options 4. A framework for promoting older adult safe transportation

PART 2: PERSPECTIVES 5. Older adults 6. Family members, friends, and other caregivers 7. Physicians and other health professionals 8. Licensing agencies 9. Law enforcement 10. Professionals who work with older adults 11. Transportation Service Providers 12. State and local governments

PART 3: STRATEGIES 13. In-vehicle and self-driving technologies 14. Roadway design and infrastructure 15. Managing the transition to non-driving

PART 4: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? 16. Conclusion

Appendix A: List of Resources