Driving and dementia: a clinical decision pathway
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Carter, Kirsty
Monaghan, Sophie
O'Brien, John
Teodorczuk, Andrew
Mosimann, Urs
Taylor, John-Paul
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2015
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Objective: This study aimed to develop a pathway to bring together current UK legislation, good clinical
practice and appropriate management strategies that could be applied across a range of healthcare settings.
Methods: The pathway was constructed by a multidisciplinary clinical team based in a busy Memory
Assessment Service. A process of successive iteration was used to develop the pathway, with input
and refinement provided via survey and small group meetings with individuals from a wide range of
regional clinical networks and diverse clinical backgrounds as well as discussion with mobility centres
and Forum of Mobility ...
View more >Objective: This study aimed to develop a pathway to bring together current UK legislation, good clinical practice and appropriate management strategies that could be applied across a range of healthcare settings. Methods: The pathway was constructed by a multidisciplinary clinical team based in a busy Memory Assessment Service. A process of successive iteration was used to develop the pathway, with input and refinement provided via survey and small group meetings with individuals from a wide range of regional clinical networks and diverse clinical backgrounds as well as discussion with mobility centres and Forum of Mobility Centres, UK. Results: We present a succinct clinical pathway for patients with dementia, which provides a decision-making framework for how health professionals across a range of disciplines deal with patients with dementia who drive. Conclusions: By integrating the latest guidance from diverse roles within older people’s health services and key experts in the field, the resulting pathway reflects up-to-date policy and encompasses differing perspectives and good practice. It is potentially a generalisable pathway that can be easily adaptable for use internationally, by replacing UK legislation for local regulations. A limitation of this pathway is that it does not address the concern of mild cognitive impairment and how this condition relates to driving safety.
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View more >Objective: This study aimed to develop a pathway to bring together current UK legislation, good clinical practice and appropriate management strategies that could be applied across a range of healthcare settings. Methods: The pathway was constructed by a multidisciplinary clinical team based in a busy Memory Assessment Service. A process of successive iteration was used to develop the pathway, with input and refinement provided via survey and small group meetings with individuals from a wide range of regional clinical networks and diverse clinical backgrounds as well as discussion with mobility centres and Forum of Mobility Centres, UK. Results: We present a succinct clinical pathway for patients with dementia, which provides a decision-making framework for how health professionals across a range of disciplines deal with patients with dementia who drive. Conclusions: By integrating the latest guidance from diverse roles within older people’s health services and key experts in the field, the resulting pathway reflects up-to-date policy and encompasses differing perspectives and good practice. It is potentially a generalisable pathway that can be easily adaptable for use internationally, by replacing UK legislation for local regulations. A limitation of this pathway is that it does not address the concern of mild cognitive impairment and how this condition relates to driving safety.
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Journal Title
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
Volume
30
Issue
2
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© 2014 The Authors. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction
in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Clinical sciences
Cognitive and computational psychology