Testing of Older Drivers' Vision Inadequate

"Responsibility for assessing ability and advising older patients about driving often falls to vision care specialists, but many providers lack the training and resources to do it right, according to a survey of ophthalmologists and optometrists," according to MedPage Today. "Many of the respondents [[including eye care professionals] used tests that are inadequate for a thorough vision assessment, did not address some common tasks related to crash risk, and expressed a lack of confidence in the reporting system. Only about a third of the eye-care providers said they reported concerns about patients' driving ability to primary care physicians, the investigators reported online in Archives of Ophthalmology." Read more.