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- Title
Attention and driving performance in Alzheimer's disease.
- Authors
Duchek JM; Hunt L; Ball K; Buckles V; Morris JC
- Abstract
The present study examined the relationship between visual attention measures and driving performance in healthy older adults and individuals with very mild and mild dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT). Subjects were administered an on-road driving assessment and three visual attention tasks (visual search, visual monitoring, and useful field of view). The results indicated that error rate and reaction time during visual search were the best predictors of driving performance. Furthermore, visual search performance was predictive of driving performance above and beyond simple dementia severity and several traditional psychometric tests. The results suggest that general cognitive status may be useful for identifying individuals 'at risk' for unsafe driving. However, measures of selective attention may serve to better differentiate safe versus unsafe drivers, especially in the DAT population.
- Subjects
DEMENTIA; ALZHEIMER'S disease; AGE factors in disease
- Publication
Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences & Social Sciences, 1998, Vol 53B, Issue 2, pP130
- ISSN
1079-5014
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1093/geronb/53b.2.p130