TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2005//
TI  - The relationship of neuropsychological functioning to driving competence in older persons with early cognitive decline
JO  - Archives of clinical neuropsychology
A1  - Whelihan, W. M.
A1  - DiCarlo, M. A.
A1  - Paul, Robert H.
SP  - 217
EP  - 228
VL  - 20
IS  - 2
N2  - The study focused on the role of traditional and computer-administered visual attention and executive measures in the prediction of driving competence in older individuals with early-stage cognitive decline. A group of 23 patients with questionable dementia by Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR=0.5) was evaluated with a group of 23 age-matched controls. For the patient group, correlational analyses revealed that road-test performance was significantly related to a number of executive and visual attention measures but not to other neuropsychological measures. For the control group, road-test performance was only significantly related to age. A hierarchical regression procedure was utilized to further explore the contribution of specific executive and visual attention measures and 46% of the variance in road-test performance was attributable to these measures for the patient group. A discriminant function analysis utilizing executive and visual attention measures for the entire group of participants classified those who passed and failed the road test with 80% accuracy. Neuropsychological executive and visual attention measures may play a useful role in determining competence to drive in older individuals with early-stage cognitive decline.
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SN  - 0887-6177
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -