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How To Know When A Loved One With Alzheimer’s Should Stop Driving –

Driving requires good judgment, quick reaction times and split-second decision making, all qualities that are affected by Alzheimer’s.  Families often struggle with the decision to limit or stop the driving of a loved one suffering from the illness, but the reality is that, for a person with Alzheimer’s, driving becomes difficult and unsafe. 

Though an Alzheimer’s diagnosis is not reason enough to provoke a loved ones driving privileges, there are several warning signs that they may be unfit and unsafe to take to the roads alone.  If they’re forgetting how to get to familiar places, such as a family members home or store that they’ve been shopping at for years, it’s possible that they could begin driving aimlessly and wandering through town. 

Allowing a loved one to drive in this confused state could leave them lost and in a bad situation they may not be able to get themselves out of.