On this page, we provide information on the physical and mental changes that may come with aging and how these changes affect the driving experience.
Your Health and Driving
Age alone is not a reason to prevent someone from driving. After all, everyone ages (despite our best efforts to the contrary), and many of us continue to drive safely well into the golden years.
However, aging does bring with it certain changes to our physical and mental health, which we must address.
While driving may seem as easy as breathing after all these years, many complicated processes actually take place simultaneously as we drive.
We are constantly scanning for danger, processing multiple sources of information and determining what requires our immediate attention, coordinating what our eyes see to what our hands and feet must do and so on.
So, take the time to consider how your body and mind are changing, and what you can do to increase your comfort and safety on the road.
Physical and Mental Health
This section discusses the specific physical and mental conditions that come with aging and signs to watch out for. Please click the tabs to navigate between the two categories.