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Driver Education and Safety Programs
What to do when it comes time to hang up the car keys for good? Older adults and their families often wrestle with this. Public transportation -- especially senior and disabled-friendly transportation -- is limited and inadequate.
Having the conversation
Some tips:
- Most impaired older adults voluntarily limit their driving and, if necessary, quit altogether. They may stop driving at night, avoid the freeways, avoid rush hours, stick to familiar territory. However, if you get into a battle over it and are concerned about safety, get out of the middle -- bring in a trusted third party, such as family doctor, to help move the conversation forward.
- Look for a local driver assessment, driver education, or driver safety programs.
- Explore other transportation options.
- Talk to Council on Aging about in-home care programs that provide transportation. Call: (513) 721-1025
American Academy of Family Physicians, AAFP
Leawood KS 66211-2680
Description:
As experienced drivers grow older, changes in vision, attention and physical abilities may cause them to drive less safely than they used to. Sometimes these changes happen so slowly that the drivers are not even aware that their driving safety is at risk.
The documents below provide tips for talking with elderly patients about driving safely.
American Automobile Association (AAA) Kenwood
Cincinnati Ohio 45236
Description:
American Automobile Association (AAA) Web site specifically for older drivers. Site includes a self-assessment tool, education and training, planning tools for transportation after you quit driving, and other resources.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Atlanta GA 30329
Description:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is an excellent resource for information and guidance on a variety of health related topics from chronic disease and smoking cessation, to fall prevention and flu shots.
Here are some particular areas of interest for older adults and caregivers:
Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Use the site's A-Z Index to easily find the information you are looking for.
Deaconess Associations Foundations
Cincinnati 45219
Description:
Deaconess Hospital no longer offers emergency room or in-patient hospital services.
The Deaconess Foundation offers programs and services to help older adults remain safe and independent in their homes. These services include:
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Care Coordinator Services
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Nursing Home Visits
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Consistent Caregivers
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Senior-friendly Designed Exam Rooms
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Customized Care Plans
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Senior-sensitive Staff
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Longer Office Visits
Drake Center Driver Rehabilitation
Cincinnati 45216-1096
Description:
Evaluation and Training for Safe, Independent Driving
Persons with disabilities or illnesses are sometimes limited in their ability to drive. Drake Center driver rehabilitation is designed to evaluate these individuals for driving potential and provide specialized training by occupational therapists and other staff members who are licensed driving instructors. Trained staff carefully assess each persons needs and, if appropriate, help him or her develop safe, independent driving skills that meet real-world needs.
Majestic Care of Cedar Village
Mason Ohio 45040
Description:
Keeping Seniors Safe on the Roads.
National Highway Transportation Safety Administration
Description:
Older road users include drivers, passengers, pedestrians, bicyclists, and motorcyclists. NHTSA`s mission with respect to older road users is to keep them safely mobile through programs directed toward reducing traffic-related injuries and fatalities among older people. Through research and outreach activities, NHTSAs programs help aging individuals recognize their changing abilities and adapt their transportation practices appropriately. Whether driving, walking or cycling, if unsafe choices are made, family, friends, physicians, other health-care providers, and licensing officials can be pivotal in providing older persons with options for maintaining safe mobility. These individuals can also identify drivers with functional limitations that impair driving performance and direct older drivers to safer transportation alternatives
Please refer to the website for additional resources.
National Institute on Aging
Bethesda MD 20892
Description:
Information about how your body changes as you age and how those changes may affect your life.
Senior Care Authority ( Beyond driving with dignity)
Ohio
Description:
The “Beyond Driving with Dignity” program was created in 2008 by Matt Gurwell, a retired Ohio State Trooper. Matt’s passion has been to continue reducing preventable traffic crashes involving older drivers that may have a diminishment in cognitive and/or physical driving abilities. The program provides practical, real-life solutions to older drivers and their concerned families. The “Beyond Driving with Dignity” program is designed to save lives while simultaneously helping to ease the burden of the family as they find themselves faced with this very challenging issue.
TriHealth
Description:
TriHealth provides a wide range of clinical, educational, preventive and social programs. TriHealth`s non-hospital services include physician practice management, fitness centers and fitness center management, occupational health centers, home health and hospice care.
TriHealth Physician Telephone Referral Line
513-569-5400
TriHealth Senior Programs
TriHealth Seniority
Free hospital-based program helps members age 50 and older maintain healthier, more active lives through special events, exclusive classes and valuable discounts. Includes:
- Expert health education and information
- Special courtesies from Bethesda North and Good Samaritan hospitals
- Assistance with insurance paperwork and billing issues
- Educational programs, lectures and classes
- Social outings and entertainment events
- Travel opportunities to local, national and international destinations
- Discounts on health-related products and services
- No-cost discount prescription card
- TriHealth Seniority Insider, our timely newsletter and calendar with dates and descriptions of all our upcoming events.
Bethesda North Hospital
Email or call (513) 865-1700
Good Samaritan Hospital
Email or call (513) 862-3633
TriHealth Driver Rehabilitation Program
For disabled drivers of all ages, TriHealth offers an objective evaluation of the skills necessary for driving. You must have a physician prescription to participate in this test. TriHealth can perform the in-clinic evaluation at Good Samaritan Hospital or the TriHealth Fitness & Health Pavilion.
Parish Nurses
In 1998, Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation, with a grant from what is today called the Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati, hired two nurses to cover eight schools. Their work in the schools complements that of 10 parish nurses based at churches in Over-the-Rhine, North Fairmount, Bond Hill, Winton Terrace/Winton Hills, Clifton/Mt. Auburn and Walnut Hills.
Parish nurses strive to be advocates for people who have little access to health care resources. For more information about the Parish Nurse program and how you can help, call (513) 569-6138.
TriHealth Senior Behavioral Health Program
513-872-4100
Serves older adults in an inpatient mental health setting.
The Centers for Interactive Geriatric Assessment (CIGA)
513-699-1852
Executive Park
4050 Executive Park Drive, Suite 240
Cincinnati, OH 45241
TriHealth Fitness and Health Pavilion
513-985-0900
6200 Pfeiffer Road
Cincinnati, OH 45242
Bethesda Alcohol and Drug Treatment Program.
The highly-regarded program, established in 1978, is the longest-running of its kind in Greater Cincinnati. It provides a path to recovery for those at risk of losing their families, careers and health to chemical dependency.
The Bethesda Alcohol and Drug Treatment Program continues to incorporate treatment advances into an already well-established program, which uses traditional tried-and-true approaches including family involvement, extended continuing care and self-help group support.
We offer our intensive outpatient program at two facilities in Greater Cincinnati.
619 Oak Street
4th Floor West
Cincinnati, OH 45206
Phone 513 569 6116
11305 Reed Hartman Hwy.
Suite 106
Cincinnati, OH 45241
Phone 513 489 6011