Driving With Dementia?

Did you know that 76% of people with mild dementia could pass a driving test? How can experts determine who among people with cognitive impairments is still a safe driver and who is not? How can they test this without posing risks to other drivers? What elements make up an accurate diagnostic model? What social issues must be considered in this model? A collaborative effort to answer these questions is underway by a University of Tennessee research team from the College of Engineering, the Department of Psychology, and the Cole Neuroscience Center (CNC) in the Graduate School of Medicine.