True and False
You have to be a specialized OT to assist in rehabilitation for driving and community mobility.
What is FALSE! It is within our scope and ethical obligation as a generalized OT to identify risks and provide intervention as needed.
A person experiencing normal aging eventually has slower what? name 1/2
What are slower information processing and motor responses?
This generation started the strongest desire to be able to drive longer - cars were just starting to become readily available to them, they could go to any social event, and they like to have a car 'just in case'
Who are the baby boomers?
The first thing an OT will do is this. It includes obtaining and reviewing data to determine the needs for the evaluation.
What is a screening?
Name 2 organizations AOTA is associated with in regard to driving and community mobility
American Medical Association (AMA)
American Society on Aging
Community Transportation Association of America (CTAA)
Florida’s Safe Mobility for Life Program
The Hartford Center for Mature Market Excellence
CarFit
American Automobile Association (AAA)
AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety
American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA)
American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
The Association for Driver Rehabilitation Specialists (ADED)
Alzheimer’s Association
Alzheimer’s Community Care
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
National Aging and Disability Transportation Center (NADTC)
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
SafetyLit
The National Mobility Equipment Dealers Association (NMEDA)
Driving and community mobility is one of the least valued IADLs
What is FALSE! Being able to drive or utilize community mobility enables individuals to engage in other occupations! Therefore, highly valued.
These are the functional performance skills we assess - name 2/4
This IADL requires a person to utilize driving and/or community mobility to engage in - it enables a person to develop, produce, deliver, or manage objects/services with financial or nonfinancial benefits
What is work/employment and volunteering?
This includes having the client perform functional, everyday tasks and relating them to driving performance skills.
What is observation/evaluation?
What is the educational program AOTA works with that offers events and virtual assessments to do a safety check - the goal is to enhance safety, promote conversations about safe driving - adjust their vehicles on the inside for safety and comfort and address cognitive abilities and skills
What is CarFit?
“Stakeholders” – individuals, groups, or organizations that can affect or are affected by an evaluation process and/or its findings.
CarFit, AAA, Alzheimer's Association, The Hartford, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration are all examples of organizations and stakeholders associated with AOTA related to driving and community mobility.
What is TRUE!!
This provides the most sensory input while driving.
Conditions with this affect acuity, visual fields, eye-motor skills, and contrast sensitivity.
What is vision?
This IADL requires a person to utilize driving and/or community mobility to engage in - it enables a person to participate in activities that are intrinsically motivating during discretionary time - something a person enjoys doing
What is play or leisure?
What are 2 assessments that can be done if found necessary?
What is the OT profile, performance skills (vision, visual perception, cognition, motor skills), driving simulation, in-vehicle, on-road
Stakeholders and organizations can be beneficial when creating this -
They will provide information to educate yourself and people around you for safe driving recommendations
What is a community driving program?
MOHO is the model OTs can use to guide them to develop a plan to prioritize the health and safety of the client and community as it relates to driving and community mobility. This model utilizes a stop light as a visual for the OT.
What is FALSE! - it is the OT-DRIVE Model
Describe 2 driving behavior warning signs - these are things that occur when older adults drive that may require further evaluation
What is: riding the brake, incorrect signaling, hitting curbs, failure to notice traffic signs, going inappropriate speeds, car accidents, confusion at exits, getting lost in familiar places, confusing the gas/brake pedals, stopping in traffic for no reason
This IADL requires a person to utilize driving and/or community mobility to engage in - it enables a person to interact with others (family, friends, peers, community, etc.)
What is social participation?
Intervention depends on the client - this intervention will add something to the client's vehicle to enable them to drive safer. An example of this includes hand controls, pedal extensions, and seat cushions.
What is vehicle assistive technology/driving adaptive equipment?
What are some ways stakeholders and organizations can help?
What is: to understand and influence older drivers, how to adapt a vehicle, tips to drive safely while aging, information on common medical conditions and how they affect driving, caregiver communication tips, driving wellness, coping with driving cessation, etc.
OTs can only help older adults in driving and community mobility
What is FALSE - OTs can help all ages and all abilities navigate through finding safe ways to get around in their community safely - from infancy - older adulthood.
There are several common medical conditions in older adults that may have symptoms that put them at risk for driving & community mobility - name 2
What is: Alzheimer's, arthritis, sleep apnea, vision disorders, stroke, diabetes, Parkinson's
This is the feeling someone has when they are able to drive or access community mobility on their own.
What is independence, autonomy, freedom of choice/power over own decisions, and well-being?
When an older adult is no longer safe to independently drive or utilize community mobility, an OT can help them through this process
What is driving retirement or the transition to non-driving?
You can become a certified driver rehabilitation specialist through this stakeholder organization -
What is Association for Driver Rehabilitation Specialists (ADED)?