When should you take the car keys from an aging parent? - Boston Globe
But the pain pours out on an Alzheimer’s help line, where middle-aged sons and daughters call crying, afraid to tell mom or dad it’s time to stop driving, and equally afraid not to. “That role reversal is overwhelming,” said Ronda Randazzo, the... “We have occasionally had people threaten to hurt family members who said they were not safe to drive,” said Lissa Kapust, the director. Last week, on June 16, the Gerontology Institute at the University of Massachusetts Boston convened an older driver safety summit, a “call to action” as the state’s over-65 population is growing at a record pace, and car accidents involving older... Elizabeth Dugan, a UMass Boston gerontologist and a meeting organizer, hopes it will spur action aimed at reducing fatal accidents for people over 65. Older drivers have a lower crash rate than drivers 25 and younger, she said, but are more likely... Don Blackburn, 85, of Framingham, a speaker at the summit, stopped driving a few years ago — but. Source: www.bostonglobe.com
