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Driving with Dementia; New Helpful Guidelines:

Evidence shows driving skills deteriorate with increasing dementia severity. "While patients with mild dementia, as a group, are higher risk drivers, more recent studies report that as many as 76% are still able to pass an on road driving test and can safely drive," said Iverson. "Faced with these facts, we needed to provide guidelines for doctors caring for these patients to identify those people at higher risk of unsafe driving, with out unnecessary restricting those who are safe drivers."

The American Academy of Neurology has issued a new guideline to help determine when people with Alzheimer's Disease or some other type of Dementia should stop driving. Please check out www.alzheimersweekly.com and please read this report of driving with Alzheimer's and please watch the videos.

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