Identification of appropriate assessment criteria to measure older adults' driving performance in simulated driving

Australian Occupational Therapy Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 138-145

  Lee, Hoe C ^a   Drake, Vaile ^a   Cameron, Don ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Driving simulator; Elderly drivers; Off road driving assessment; Road safety

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DRIVING ABILITY; ELDERLY CARE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEASUREMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; SIMULATOR; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAFFIC SAFETY; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 0036750022     PISSN: 00450766     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1630.2002.00314.x     Document Type: Article

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