AAA Offers Free Online Tool for Seniors
(Midwest Traveler) The AM Foundation for Traffic Safety has launched a free, online version of AMs Roadwise Review, a first-ofits-kind scientifically valid tool designed to help seniors assess their driving health in the privacy of their homes.
Roadwise Review: A Tool to Help Seniors Drive Safely Longer measures physical and mental abilities shown to be the strongest predictors of crash risk among older drivers and provides feedback to guide users about their ability to drive safely.
The program is at www.seniordrivers.org, which also features other resources to help keeps eniors stay safe behind the wheel. Roadwise Review uses an integrated data system that provides users with confidential feedback about screening results.
Using videos and easy-to-follow instructions, Roadwise Review screens drivers in eight functional areas, including leg strength and general mobility, head and neck flexibility, visual acuity, memory and visual searching ability.
The program uninstalls itself after use but allows users the option to save results to their computer. No personal data is reported so results remain confidential.
For more information visit www.seniordrivers.org