The driving behaviors of dementia patients have received little in the way of empirical
scrutiny except through retrospective reports of crash rates. Understanding the driving errors
of dementia patients and how they differ from those of normal older and younger drivers is
important. This knowledge is basic to the development of road tests and scoring procedures
to evaluate the driving competence of older, experienced drivers, especially those whose
fitness to drive may have been compromised by a medical illness that alters their mental …