The Safety of Elderly Drivers

Produktbeschreibung

The Safety of Elderly Drivers includes comments from elderly drivers who have been involved in serious accidents, and from random elderly drivers speaking for their generation of drivers. This book will be of Interest to pollcymakers concerned with traffic safety, as well as social scientists and others Interested In gerontological issues. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables, List of Figures, Foreword Joseph Gusfield, Preface,
Acknowledgments, Growing Older, The Elderly Under the Conceptual Microscope,
(Written by B. de Vries, with the assistance of J. Thornton), Other Writers on
Elderly Drivers, The Research Schemata, Different Ages, Different Risks: The
Realm of Accident Statistics (Written by P.J. Cooper), Trends, Factors and
Patterns, Face-to-Face, Victims of Serious Crashes, Windows of Change:
Transitions, Predictions, and Eventualities (Written by B. de Vries),
Recommendations, APPENDIXES, Appendix to Chapter 2:, Tables A-l to A-5, Appendix
to Chapter 6: Interview Survey Tables B-l to B-48, Appendix to Chapter 7: Focus
Group Discussions, Discussion Guide, Tables C-l to C-25, Appendix to Chapter 8:
Victims of Serious Crashes, Index 

Autoreninfo

J. Peter Rothe Is the traffic safety research manager for the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia. Since 1980 he has taught courses in traffic safety at numerous universities, and has spoken at conferences around the world on these Issues. He has published widely on the sociological perspective on traffic matters.