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Mobility and transportation in the elderly / K. Warner Schaie, Martin Pietrucha, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Societal impact on aging.
- Societal impact on aging series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Older people--Transportation.
- Older people.
- Older automobile drivers.
- Traffic accidents.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (360 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Springer Pub., c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This comprehensive volume examines the gradual reduction of mobility in the elderly. The authors first review the physiological and psychological changes that occur as we age, and go on to illustrate how this gradual decrease in adequate mobility can lead to an increase in automotive accidents. They also review the limitations that mass transportation systems and driving individual vehicles present for the elderly, and discuss different assistive devices that have been and should be implemented to help improve mobility. Each chapter ends with insightful commentaries by specialists in the geron
- Contents:
- Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1 Sensory and Cognitive Changes with Age; 2 Effects of Exercise on Body Composition and Functional Capacity of Elderly Persons; 3 Limitations of Mass Transportation and Individual Vehicle Systems for Older Persons; 4 Characteristics of Motor Vehicle Crashes Related to Aging; 5 Increasing Mobility and Reducing Accidents of Older Drivers; 6 Will Intelligent Transportation Systems Improve Older Driver Mobility?; Author Index; Subject Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-80618-8
- 9786611806187
- 0-8261-1676-0
- OCLC:
- 476262816
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