Effects of Older Adult Driving Resumption on All-Cause Mortality

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OBJECTIVES: Driving cessation is associated with adverse social and health outcomes including increased mortality risk. Some former drivers resume driving. Do resumed drivers have a different mortality risk compared to former drivers or continued drivers?.

METHOD: We analyzed National Health and Aging Trends Study (2011-2015) data of community-dwelling self-responding ever drivers (n = 6,189) with weighted stratified life tables and discrete time logistic regression models to characterize mortality risk by driving status (continued, resumed, former), adjusting for relevant sociodemographic and health variables.

RESULTS: Overall, 14% (n = 844) of participants died and 52% (n = 3,209) completed Round 5. Former drivers had the highest mortality (25%), followed by resumed (9%) and continued (6%) drivers. Former drivers had 2.4 times the adjusted odds of mortality compared with resumed drivers (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] = 2.41; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.51, 3.83), with no difference between continued and resumed drivers (aOR = 1.22; 95% CI = 0.74, 1.99).

DISCUSSION: Those who resumed driving had better survival than those who did not. Practice implications include driver rehabilitation and retraining to safely promote and prolong driving.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:75

Enthalten in:

The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences - 75(2020), 10 vom: 13. Nov., Seite 2263-2267

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ratnapradipa, Kendra L [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Jing [VerfasserIn]
Berg-Weger, Marla [VerfasserIn]
Schootman, And Mario [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Driving cessation
Journal Article
Longitudinal cohort
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Survival analysis
Transportation

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 29.03.2021

Date Revised 29.03.2021

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/geronb/gbz058

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM296958980