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Denmark stops testing

The government has decided to remove the mandatory requirement for elderly drivers to be checked by a doctor before their driving licences can be renewed. Currently, drivers over the age of 75 must get an examination every two years to renew their licence. And anyone over the age of 80 must be examined every year […]

Only 15% pass DriveABLE test

Originally published in Victoria Times Colonist. VANCOUVER — The government needs to do a better job of explaining a computerized driving test for seniors suspected of cognitive impairment, Solicitor-General Shirley Bond said in an open letter Tuesday. The 45-minute TOUCH SCREEN EXAM called Driveable, has angered seniors who say it is unfair and an inappropriate […]

Insurance Corporation, BC

The Insurance Corporation of B.C. says seniors (age 70 and over) cause 95 out of every 1,000 accidents in B.C. The average crash rate for drivers of all ages is 124 out of every 1,000 accidents. 26/02/17

Ageism

It is now widely known, that it is not only younger drivers but also distracted drivers who are a major cause of on road collisions. However in Alberta, millions upon millions of tax dollars are being spent on medical assessments and driver testing of older Albertans, a segment of the population, who are not causing […]

Testing senior drivers

Ottawa Citizen Dear Mr. Egan, My name is Ed. Rockburne, retired Sgt from the RCMP who has spent the last 31/2 years researching and trying to bring to the publics attention, that special testing of older drivers is based on nothing more than common myth and discrimination. All major research in Canada , Europe , […]

It’s not seniors

Traffic deaths were up more than 50 per cent in Edmonton in 2015 with a total of 35 people killed on city streets. That’s up from 23 deaths last year. Almost half of the fatal crashes involved IMPAIRED DRIVERS and one-third involved EXCESSIVE SPEED. “We’ve seen a lot of innocent victims who have died as […]

Dobbs: Flawed Research

FLAWED CONCLUSION AUTHOR – ROBERT GIFFORD, PhD Author information ? Copyright and License information ? Allen Dobbs’ conflict of interest in the study “Accuracy of the DriveABLE cognitive assessment to determine cognitive fitness to drive”1 appears to have coloured the interpretation of the results to an unacceptable degree, and the manuscript’s conclusions should have been […]

Cognitive screening

COGNITIVE SCREENING OF OLDER DRIVERS DOES NOT PRODUCE SAFETY RESUTS. Abstract Although screening policies for older drivers based on chronological age are widely used in many countries, previous research has shown that increasing age does not cause higher crash rates and that consequently, chronological age per se is at best only a weak predictor of […]

Former premier Ed Stelmach chairs Covenant Health

Honourable Premier Ed. Stelmach named new Covenant Health Chair, is quoted as “I have always had a tremendous interest in making sure we take care of the most vulnerable” Tragically, in 2002, the Operator Licensing & Vehicle Control Regulation of the Alberta Traffic Safety Act, Alberta Regulation 320/2002, Section 16(2) was changed. The change required […]

Press Release

Seniors across Alberta, have been subjected to an injustice of unspeakable magnitude. Silence, surrounding the violation of senior rights, has been deafening. We have publicly alleged that the Simard MD & DriveABLE pilot project is a massive, sophisticated multi-million dollar scam which has been perpetrated against the older citizens of this Province by government and […]

Albertan fights for right to drive

ELDER ABUSE BY GOVERNMENT. Judy Sutter did not expect she would ever be fighting for her father’s driving licence. That is, until the day he faced provincial SIMARD MD and the DriveABLE assessments, when his driving future began to look uncertain. “Until the day the government took his licence away, dad was able to drive […]

No Benefit to Cognitive Screening

  TASK FORCE FINDINGS: MD’S SHOULD SCREEN FOR COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT ONLY IF SYMPTOMATIC It’s about time someone called the screening of patients aged 65 and older for mild cognitive impairment–unless they have symptoms like memory loss–a total waste of money and time. The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC) was established by the […]

Dr. Emily Stevenson

REGISTERED MAIL June 30, 2014 College of Physicians and Surgeons 2700 Telus Plaza South 10020 100th Street Edmonton, AB. T5J 0N3 Attention: Complaints Director Complaint re: Dr. Emily Stevenson, MD Westgrove Medical Clinic 201-505 QUEEN ST Spruce Grove, Alberta, T7X 2V2 Reference: Ms. L. On January 13, 2014, Ms.L. attended at the Westgrove Medical Clinic […]

B.C. senior loses driver’s licence after miscommunication

A B.C. senior says she has lost her independence after being required to re-take her driver’s licence test and then failing it — two outcomes she’s blaming on a lack of language skills, not driving skills. Aino Leskinen, 84, came to Canada from Finland when she was 33. She couldn’t speak English, but could drive. […]