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Reviewed By: Andrew Seibert,
SOURCES: 2008 Medical Reference from Medstar Television. David Carr, MD, Geriatrician, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
© 1999-2011 Medstar Television
Darrell Groves and his dog enjoy leisurely walks, but no car rides. Darrell has Alzheimer's disease and can't drive.
And I haven't for, for I don't know. I think, I think it's about, what was it about five years, maybe?
Initially, Darrell could safely drive to the store.
At a very early stage, it doesn't appear that there's much impairment related to driving.
But as Alzheimer's or other related illnesses progress, driving abilities are affected.
The areas that keep coming up recurrently, is that they may be driving too slow, or too fast, for conditions, so speed problems. Trouble staying in the lane, so it's very common that they'll cross over lanes, or they end up driving the car into a ditch.
And traffic signs become tricky, as a recent study with Dementia patients revealed.
They had difficulty, believe it or not, with the stop sign without the word STOP on it.
Before you're in the driver's seat trying to figure out what to do, Doctor Carr advises families to start a dialogue.
We need to start thinking about a time when we're no longer gonna be able to drive and start planning for that. Unfortunately, more often than not, it just comes up as an urgency.
And down the road, it's an issue we'll all have pay attention to. For WebMD, I'm Sandee LaMotte.
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