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Citation

Kosnik WD, Sekuler R, Kline DW. Hum. Factors 1990; 32(5): 597-608.

Affiliation

KRUG Life Sciences Inc., San Antonio, Texas 78279-0644.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2074111

Abstract

We conducted a survey in order to gain insights into the reasons older persons decide to give up driving. Our survey focused on vision. We probed the relationship between visual deficiencies and driving status by asking older people about the problems they encountered while performing routine visual tasks. The results showed that older persons who had recently given up driving reported more visual problems than did their driving counterparts. These problems related to difficulties in dynamic vision, visual processing speed, visual search, light sensitivity, and near vision. The results suggested that older persons are sensitive to their own visual deficits and that this awareness influences decisions about driving.

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