#OLDER DRIVER ASSESSMENT DRIVERS#

You do not need to practice driving before the assessment.Ī family member or friend may be with you except during the on-the-road driving. If you haven't driven in a while or if you have never driven, please tell your evaluator during the clinical part of your assessment. react in a variety of traffic scenarios.ability to think and problem solve quickly.įor the drive portion, your driver specialist will evaluate how you:.15 to 30 minutes for the evaluator to go over the results with you.ĭuring the clinical portion of the assessment, your driver rehabilitation specialist will evaluate you on many critical driving skills such as your:.45 to 60 minutes for on-the-road driving.90 minutes for the evaluator to talk with you about your medical history, driving history, and to do the clinical testing.

We are here to help older drivers, their families and their physician through a difficult, but important, change in lifestyle. To make an appointment, please call you check in, plan on three hours for the driver assessment. We accept cash or credit for the driver assessments. Once it is determine that it is safe to do an on-the-road assessment and/or treatment, the program becomes self-pay at a rate of $100 per hour. The initial clinical evaluation and treatment requires a physician order for an Occupational Therapy Driving Evaluation and is billed to insurance as an occupational therapy evaluation and treatment.

On-the-road assessment: An assessment conducted in a Cleveland Clinic vehicle adapted for driving evaluations.

Recommendations to the client, their family and the referring physician are made at the end of the evaluation process.

Clinical evaluation: A review of the patient's medical chart and the physician's recommendations, assessment of vision, visual perceptual skills, cognition, range of motion, strength and reaction time.

Individuals entering this program potentially undergo a two-step process that consisting of:

Have you recently gotten lost or confused while driving?Ĭleveland Clinic's Driver Evaluation and Rehabilitation Program provides a clinical and on-the-road assessment of driving skills, with recommendations to the client, family and physician.Clinical assessment testing, developed with resources from the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration, Maryland Older Driver Project and American Medical Association’s Assessment and Counseling of Older Drivers, includes:.

Do you have pain, decreased range of motion, decreased strength or other issues that make driving difficult?.

#OLDER DRIVER ASSESSMENT DRIVERS#

Do other drivers honk at you, or do other drivers easily frustrate you?.Are there conditions in which you have difficulty driving, or do not drive at all?.If you have a family member or friend who answers yes to these questions, they should consider discussing a driver rehabilitation program with their physician:

Our goal is to help individuals return to independent driving, as long as they are safe to do so. Cleveland Clinic Adult Driver Evaluation and RehabilitationĪdults who have experienced any physical, neurological, visual or cognitive change in function that has an impact on driving performance may benefit from a driving assessment.

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