Elderly Driving
Life Alarm Services has been recognized as a provider of quality medical alarm/personal emergency response systems for numerous years. Our well trained staff, customer friendly support, dependable products and concern for the well-being of our subscribers are a few factors that make Life Alarm stand out above the rest.
Life Alarm Services is referred through thousands of public agencies, hospitals, community service organizations, home health care providers, and subscribers throughout the nation. Our monitoring center has monitored thousands of subscribers, and provided them with quality service throughout. That is an accomplishment we are very proud of. After all, each of our subscribers and their families trust in our service due to the responsibility we have.
We provide medical alarm/personal emergency response service throughout the United States and Canada. Our product is a very installer-friendly plug and play system. This simplistic system makes our subscribers comfortable with the operation of their life saving system, Life Alarm. The two-way voice communication system assures quick and efficient response to any in-home emergency. Our systems are ideally designed for the elderly and disabled persons who are home alone and medically at risk.
Elderly Driving
Is your elderly loved one a safe driver? If you are not sure of the answer to this question, you may want to their driving abilities evaluated. An elderly person may not realize when he or she is no longer a safe driver. The decision to revoke an elderly person’s driver’s license is a very difficult one to make. Having a driver’s license gives them freedom to do their own errands, go to doctor’s appointments and visit fiends and relatives. Taking this privilege away may be met with resistance.
Poor Eye sight
Much of an elderly person’s unsafe driving habits are due to poor vision. Elderly people should have their vision checked routinely. There are special glasses for night driving or for glare. There are many diseases that can increase unsafe driving risk, including heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, Parkinson’s disease, and Alzheimer’s disease. Some warning signs of an unsafe elderly driver:
- running stop signs
- switching lanes without looking
- getting lost easily
- stopping in middle of intersection
- confusing the brake and gas pedals
A study found that the chance of severe crashes, pedestrian fatalities and driver fatalities each mile driven increases greatly once a driver reaches 65 years old because of poor reflexes. It may be very helpful if both you and your elderly loved one discuss this topic with family members, doctors, and other people they respect. The Association for Driver Rehabilitation offers referrals to specialists who teach people with disabilities, including those associated with aging, how to improve their driving.
Reduce the risks
To reduce the risks associated with elderly driving, your loved one should avoid driving at night, drive only on familiar roads, avoid expressways and don’t drive alone if possible. Make sure that the elderly driver has a reliable form of communication with them while driving. Tracking devices are good to have installed on an elderly person’s car. The decision to take away an elderly person’s driving privilege will be difficult one but one that is necessary to keep them and other drivers and pedestrians safe.
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