This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Aging Studies, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Relinquishing the privilege to drive is a difficult issue for older adults. To better understand factors that influence driving decisions and to identify approaches that could help ease the transition to a non-driving status, we conducted focus groups with elders who had recently stopped driving. Results demonstrate that the decision to stop driving is reluctantly made by elders on their own or after prompting from others. While all have other means of transportation, a sense of loss of independence remains. Participants urged policy makers to address older driver issues and were proponents of developing procedures to identify at-risk drivers. They also stressed the importance of making plans for retirement from driving. Findings suggest that while there is ''life after driving,'' efforts are needed to help older drivers, and their families develop a plan for driving cessation that includes identifying the appropriate time to stop and acceptable transportation alternatives to driving.

Author: G. Adler, S. Rottunda
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Company: Elsevier  (2006-09-01)
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Author: Matthew Tayback
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Company: Center on Aging, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions  (1985)
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Author: . Transportation Research Board.
Paperback:  2 pages
Company: Transportation Research Board National Resear  (1988-08)
ISBN: 0309046645
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This comprehensive volume examines the gradual reduction of mobility in the elderly. The authors first review the physiological and psychological changes that occur as we age, and go on to illustrate how this gradual decrease in adequate mobility can lead to an increase in automotive accidents. They also review the limitations that mass transportation systems and driving individual vehicles present for the elderly, and discuss different assistive devices that have been and should be implemented to help improve mobility. Each chapter ends with insightful commentaries by specialists in the gerontology field. This book is a must read for gerontologists as well as policy makers and educators on courses in organizational structures of social policy.

Hardcover:  360 pages
Company: Springer Publishing Company  (2000-03-10)
ISBN: 0826113095
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This digital document is an article from Polymer Engineering and Science, published by Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc. on October 1, 1997. The length of the article is 5484 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: The physicochemical aging for parts of Sheet Molding Compound should be considered for their lifetime management and reusability. This material has a complex morphology and contains porosity due to the process and to shrinkage compensation. This SMC study has two complementary approaches. One describes the morphological consequences of water uptake, showing the decrease in the total amount and the fractal dimension of micro-voids by scanning electron microscopy and image processing. The other shows, by mechanical spectrometry, the effect of water on physical or chemical bonds. In both cases, the "low profile agent" in SMC plays an important role. The molecular mobility was taken as a sensor parameter for the structural changes at the molecular scale, highlighting and quantifying the first steps of the aging. The loss factor level increases, and the activation energies are modified, even for the first aging days. The analysis shows recovery for the material near the relaxation peak of the low profile agent, since the curve recovers its initial shape.

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Title: Durability of sheet molding compounds: influence of hydrothermal aging on morphology and molecular mobility at microscopic scale.(French Research on Structural Properties of Polymers)
Author: R. Blancon
Publication: Polymer Engineering and Science (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 1997
Publisher: Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc.
Volume: v37 Issue: n10 Page: p1722(10)

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Author: R. Blancon, J.J. Martinez-Vega, G. Merle, M. Revellino, G. Camino, A.Ya. Polishchuk, M.P. Luda
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Author: Mary Brennan
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Company: AFB Press  (1983-12)
ISBN: 0891281134
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This digital document is an article from Focus on Healthy Aging, published by Thomson Gale on April 1, 2007. The length of the article is 547 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Mobility devices can help you remain independent: finding the right cane, walker, or wheeled mobility device can help you get around more easily and reduce your risk of falls.(STAYING MOBILE)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: Focus on Healthy Aging (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 10 Issue: 4 Page: 3(1)

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Author: Gale Reference Team
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Author: Thomas Tissue
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Company: U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Social and Rehabilitation Service, Administration on Aging  (1969)
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52 invigorating ideas for adding more life to your years.

Scientists now believe that a human's true lifespan is between 110 and 120 years. Live Longer helps readers approach those triple digits and feel better than they ever dreamed by fighting off illness, cleaning up their lifestyles, defusing their genetic time bombs, and determining their "real age"-and then lowering it. Ideas range from the ordinary to the extreme:

- Idea #4: Boost your immune system
- Idea #10: Time for an oil change?
- Idea #22: Walk the walk
- Idea #26: The sleep solution
- Idea #39: Save your skin
- Idea #43: Brain gym

Author: Sally Brown
Paperback:  256 pages
Company: Perigee Trade  (2007-01-02)
ISBN: 0399533028
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Affordable, easy-to-use, and flexible transportation options are vital to older adults' quality of life. Community Mobility: Driving and Transportation Alternatives for Older Persons provides physical and occupational therapists with recent research findings on older driver assessment, remediation/rehabilitation, and the use of alternatives to the car in the event that older adults need to “retire” from driving. This unique book addresses changes in driving patterns over time, the impact of climate conditions on driving, mental and physical health issues, self-regulation by drivers, and driver safety.

Community Mobility addresses changes in driving patterns over time, the impact of climate conditions on driving, mental and physical health issues, self-regulation by drivers, and driver safety. This unique book also includes summaries of recent consensus conferences held in the United States and Canada to determine the best approaches to therapist services and counseling.

Community Mobility examines:

• the effect of alternative forms of transportation on drivers in declining mental and physical health
  
• safety interventions
  
• the relationship between chronic illness and an elderly driver’s “home range”
  
• road conditions versus driving patterns
  
• factors that can act as predictors in mobility patterns
  
• self-regulation and adaptation strategies
  
• effective remediation techniques
  
• a comprehensive driving evaluation (CDE)
  
• and much more!

Community Mobility is an essential resource for anyone working with elderly drivers who face the loss of independence and the decreased access to social activities, medical services, and other basic needs that accompany “retirement” from the driver’s seat.

Paperback:  172 pages
Company: Routledge  (2006-01-13)
ISBN: 0789030853
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