“Life doesn’t stop”: Using the Driving and Dementia Roadmap to Support Driving Cessation

Decision-making about driving and the transition to non-driving is a challenging and complex issue affecting drivers with dementia and their families. Healthcare/service providers, such as occupational therapists, can play an important role in facilitating and supporting drivers and their families to make this transition. In this webinar, Drs. Gary Naglie and Mark Rapoport who lead a team of CCNA researchers focused on dementia and driving, will discuss how healthcare/service providers can address the issue of driving in persons with dementia. They will demonstrate how to use the Driving and Dementia Roadmap – a newly developed online educational resource to guide people with dementia, family/friend carers and healthcare/service providers through this process.

Learning Objectives:
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:

1. Describe the impact of dementia on driving.
2. Employ strategies to address the issue of driving in persons with dementia while preserving the therapeutic relationship.
3. Utilize the online educational resource, the Driving and Dementia Roadmap (DDR) to support people with dementia and their family/friend carers through the decision-making and transition to non-driving.

Presenters:

Gary Naglie
Dr. Gary Naglie is a Professor in the Department of Medicine and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto, and he holds the Hunt Family Chair in Geriatric Medicine. He is the Vice President of Medical Services and Chief of Staff, and Chief of the Department of Medicine at Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care.  He is a Scientist at Baycrest’s Rotman Research Institute. His research focuses on driving issues in older adults and innovative models of care for frail, complex older adults. Dr. Naglie is the Co-Lead with Dr. Mark Rapoport of the Driving and Dementia Research Team for the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging, which is supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and other partners.

Mark Rapoport
Dr. Mark Rapoport is a Professor and residency program director in the geriatric psychiatry division of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, past-president of the Canadian Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry (CAGP, 2012-2016), and acting head of Geriatric Psychiatry for Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.  He founded two widely-recognized annual national review courses in geriatric psychiatry, and his main area of research focuses on motor vehicle collisions associated with neurological and psychiatric illness in older adults.   He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Canadian Psychiatric Association and the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry. Dr. Rapoport is the Co-Lead with Dr. Gary Naglie of the Driving and Dementia Research Team for the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging, which is supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and other partners.