ISBN:
9780826116765
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (360 pages)
Series Statement:
Springer Series on the Societal Impact on Aging
Series Statement:
Societal impact on aging series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Mobility and transportation in the elderly
DDC:
305.26
Keywords:
Older people -- Transportation
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Older automobile drivers
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Traffic accidents
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Older automobile drivers
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Older people ; Transportation
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Traffic accidents
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Electronic books
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Alter
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Verkehr
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Alter
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Kraftfahrer
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Verkehrsunfall
Abstract:
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 gerontology field. This book is a must read for gerontologists as well as policy makers and educators on courses in organizational structures of social policy.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Sensory and Cognitive Changes with Age -- Commentary: The Place of Ambient Vision in Understanding Problems of Mobility and Aging -- Commentary: Countering Mobility Losses Due to Functional Impairments in Normally Aging Individuals: Applying Fozard's Framework to Everyday Driving Situations -- 2 Effects of Exercise on Body Composition and Functional Capacity of Elderly Persons -- Commentary: Exercise, Activity, and Aging: Encouraging Words -- 3 Limitations of Mass Transportation and Individual Vehicle Systems for Older Persons -- Commentary: Social Structures and Processes in Public and Private Transportation -- Commentary: Into the Transportation Future -- 4 Characteristics of Motor Vehicle Crashes Related to Aging -- Commentary: What Do Driving Accident Patterns Reveal about Age-related Changes in Visual Information Processing? -- 5 Increasing Mobility and Reducing Accidents of Older Drivers -- Commentary: The Role of Concordance Between Perceived and Real Competence for Mobility Outcomes -- Commentary: Driving Competence: The Person X Environment Fit -- 6 Will Intelligent Transportation Systems Improve Older Driver Mobility? -- Commentary: Intelligent Transportation Systems and the Older Driver: An Auto Industry Perspective -- Commentary: Intelligent Transportation Systems and the Older Traveler: Prospects for Mobility Enhancement -- Author Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
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