Tested for the Road

This article from The Boston Globe tells the story of now 71 year old Edward Givler, a retired race care hobbyist, and his clinical evaluation experience to determine his driving capabilities.

Across the nation, an increasing number of hospitals are offering comprehensive driving assessment programs for the elderly. They provide the kind of dispassionate medical judgment about driving ability that can temper the emotion in the inevitably raw family debates about when elderly drivers should stop. Givler turned to the DriveWise program at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, which warns patients that any negative recommendation which is ignored will be reported to the state Registry of Motor Vehicles.

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