ASA - American Society on Aging

DriveWell: Promoting Older Driver Safety and Mobility in Your Community

Program Orientation & Resource Center

Choose from the following transportation and mobility resources offered by the American Society on Aging:

Interchange: The DriveWell E-Zine (Archive)
ASA Web Seminars
ASA Mobility Related Publications
Other ASA Transportation and Mobility Tools and Programs

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Interchange: The DriveWell E-Zine

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ASA Web Seminars

ASA Web Seminars offer expert presentations with audio and graphics sent over the Web to your computer, at your convenience. Continuing Education Credits are also available.

National Center on Senior Transportation Web Seminar Series

This series of web seminars includes:

Finding Common Ground for Expanding Awareness of the National Center on Senior Transportation
Transportation and Life Care Communities
Planning for Transportation Needs with Older Adults
Financing Senior Transportation Options
Transportation Issues Facing Older Workers

Click Here for more information or to register online.

Promoting Safety and Independence through Older Driver Wellness

This series of three web seminars includes:

Dementia and Driving: Issues & Resources
Medications and the Older Adult Driver: A Prescription for Disaster
Senior Transportation Options: Problems and Solution

ASA Mobility Related Publications

Technology Innovations and Aging, Generations, Summer 2006
This issue of Generations includes an article titled "Driving in an Aging Society: Innovations in Technology for Mobility and Independence," written by Karlene K. Ball.
The Mobile Elder: Getting Around in Later Life, Generations, Summer 2003
This issue of Generations examines
- The many ways that the ability of older adults to get around defines and shapes their world;
- The challenges when functional declines or other factors render continued use of the personal automobile as an impractical or irresponsible option;
- The increasingly diverse array of options and technologies to meet mobility needs and wants;
- The implications of older-adult transportation for aging- services organizations and public policy makers as they seek to plan for and respond to an increasingly large and diverse population of older adults in the United States.
Aging and the Senses, Generations, Spring 2003
This issue of Generations features
- An overview normal and not normal changes in vision, hearing and balance, all relevant in driving abilities"
- A look specifically at vision and its relationship to driving
ASA Newsletter and Publications Articles

Use ASA ArticleSearch to find relevent citations and full-text articles from Aging Today, eight quarterly Constituent Group Newsletters and other ASA publications.

Other ASA Transportation and Mobility Tools and Programs

2007 ASA-NCOA Conference Presentations on Older Drivers and Mobility

The 2007 Joint Conference of the American Society on Aging and the National Council on Aging will be in Chicago on March 6-10. To download a list of all "Transportation and Community Mobility Track" sessions that will be offered, click here.

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