Hearing impairment affects older people's ability to drive in the presence of distracters

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1097-1103

  Hickson, Louise ^a   Wood, Joanne ^b   Chaparro, Alex ^c   Lacherez, Philippe ^b   Marszalek, Ralph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Driving; Hearing impairment; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRACTIBILITY; DRIVING ABILITY; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED HEARING LOSS; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SELF REPORT; SPEECH PERCEPTION; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CAR DRIVING; COMPLICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEARING DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; QUESTIONNAIRE; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 77953099677     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2010.02880.x     Document Type: Article

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