Older people's driving habits, visual abilities, and subjective assessment of daily visual functioning

Work

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 339-348

  Zur, Areala ^a   Shinar, David ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aging; Driving; Older drivers; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DRIVING ABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NIGHT; NORMAL HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; SKILL; TRAFFIC SAFETY; VELOCITY; VISION TEST; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0031754876     PISSN: 10519815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/wor-1998-11312     Document Type: Article

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