Effects of Older Adult Driving Resumption on All-Cause Mortality

Kendra L Ratnapradipa, Jing Wang, Marla Berg-Weger, Mario Schootman and Deborah Carr

The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 2020, vol. 75, issue 10, 2263-2267

Abstract: ObjectivesDriving 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?MethodWe 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.ResultsOverall, 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).DiscussionThose who resumed driving had better survival than those who did not. Practice implications include driver rehabilitation and retraining to safely promote and prolong driving.

Keywords: Driving cessation; Longitudinal cohort; Survival analysis; Transportation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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