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• At the Crossroads: A Guide to Alzheimers, Dementia and Driving
  www.thehartford.com/alzheimers
  The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., the MIT Age Lab and Connecticut Community Care, Inc., have developed this guide as a tool to help individuals and caregivers determine when it is time to stop driving.
• Braille Institute
  www.brailleinstitute.org/Services/PacketsbyMail.htm
  Obtain vision simulator cards free-of-charge.
• Compendium of Law Enforcement Older Driver Programs
  www.aamva.org/drivers/drv_AgingDrivers.asp
  The National Highway and Traffic Administration has compiled a listing by state of each older driver safety program sponsored by law enforcement. (2004)
• RoadWise Review
  www.aaapublicaffairs.com
  Developed by AAA and notable transportation researchers, this computer-based screening tool allows seniors to measure the eight functional abilities most correlated to safe driving in the privacy of their own home.
• Driving Decisions Workbook
  www.aota.org/olderdriver/docs/AssessUMI.pdf
  A tested, self-administered driving assessment tool developed by the University of Michigan.
• We Need to Talk
  www.thehartford.com/talkwitholderdrivers
  The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., and the MIT AgeLab developed information to help families initiate productive and caring conversations with older adults about driving safety. These suggestions are based on research with drivers over the age of 50. This valuable booklet serves as a great tool in driving discussion sessions or to present to families and loved ones.

• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
  www.nhtsa.gov
  This site has information for consumers and professionals on older driver safety, including educational materials about driving with particular medical conditions or diseases, health professionals working with older adult drivers, and an online library of research studies, references and policy statements relating to NHTSA's older-driver safety initiative.
• National Association of Area Agencies on Aging
  www.n4a.org/older_driver_safety.cfm
  This site for professionals gives information about n4a's Older Driver Safety Project that is funded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. It includes a brochure about community-based approaches to promoting older driver safety.
• AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety
  www.seniordrivers.org
  This site has tips and information to keep an older driver's driving skills sharp. The site includes video clips covering some of the trickiest situations drivers might encounter and also gives professionals information on supplemental transportation programs for seniors as well as information about current research on older driver safety.
• AAA (Motor Clubs)
  www.aaapublicaffairs.com
  This website provides an overview of the AAA priority issue, Lifelong Safe Mobility. Included are educational programs and resources for senior drivers, as well as state legislation. Also available from this site is information about AAA Roadwise Review. Developed by AAA and notable transportation researchers, this computer-based screening tool allows seniors to measure the eight functional abilities most correlated to safe driving in the privacy of their own home.
• AARP
  www.aarp.org/life/drive
  This site gives consumers information about the nation's largest driver refresher course for older adults as well as some quick, informal tests that individuals can take to begin assessing their fitness to drive safely.
• Administration on Aging
  www.aoa.gov/prof/notes/notes_older_drivers.asp
  This site links to various articles for professionals regarding older driver health and safety, including information on disability, low-vision, transportation and mobility, and Alzheimer's disease and related dementia.
• American Occupational Therapy Association
  www.aota.org/olderdriver
  This site has an array of materials for professionals and consumers about driver evaluation and retraining and the role of occupational therapy driver rehabilitation specialists in keeping individuals connected to their communities. The site also has the nation's most comprehensive and searchable national database of driver rehabilitation specialists.
• American Medical Association
  www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/10791.html
  This site gives viewers electronic access to the Physician's Guide to Assessing and Counseling Older Drivers, a publication developed by the American Medical Association in cooperation with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
• Beverly Foundation
  www.beverlyfoundation.org
  This site highlights the research and technical assistance provided by the Foundation older adult mobility and transportation. The Resource STORe found on the site highlights reports, articles, brochures and pamphlets prepared by the Beverly Foundation to public, private and nonprofit organizations as well as professionals in health, aging and transportation, and communities across the nation. The foundation covers four areas: Mobility and Senior Mobility, Traditional Transportation, Supplemental Transportation and Off the Road Care and Services.
• Community Transportation Association of America (CTAA)
  www.ctaa.org
  CTAA' s site provides an overview of their technical assistance programs in transite design and solutions and Transportation Lending service. The Information Station connects viewers with community transportation news, resources and ideas including transportation options. It provides categorical guides, a glossary of terms, on-line publications, links to related websites and a powerful search engine.
• Easter Seals Project ACTION
  www.projectaction.easterseals.com
  This national program addresses transit accessibility issues through technical assistance, resource development and training. Easter Seals Project Action's popular bus familiarization training consists of two days of instruction for travel trainers, teachers, job coaches, and bus operators. Funded by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and administered through Easter Seals, Easter Seals Project ACTION has supported research and demonstration projects to provide solutions to accessibility challenges since 1988.

  The Easter Seals Project ACTION Clearinghouse offers more than 70 print, video, audio, and multimedia products containing information on accessible transportation. All items are free of charge, including shipping and handling. Most materials offered from the clearinghouse are available for download, and all can be ordered online.

• ITNAmerica™
  www.itnamerica.org
  This site describes a model transportation program using automobiles and both paid and volunteer drivers to provide dignified service 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The site describes how ITN is sustained entirely by fares from the people who use the service and voluntary local community support with no public subsidy for capital or operating expense. Program participants become members of the organization and pay for their rides from personal transportation accounts.

• Community Mobility and Dementia: A Review of the Literature
  http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/olddrive/CommMobilityDementia/index.htm
  This paper, written by Megan Vanderbur and Dr. Nina Silverstein, reviews the available literature on community mobility and dementia. It was developed with the support of the Alzheimer's Association and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Department of Transportation.