Professional Documents
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Annisa Zakiroh
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Head Injury
Fitness to Drive
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2001
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Test for
impairments
in body
1. Rivermead Behavioural
functions Memory Test (RBMT) to
assess memory
2. Rivermead Perceptual
Assessment Battery
(RPAB) to assess visual
perception and attention
3. Sunnaas test to test for
apraxia
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PADL
Personal Daily Life Contains: Each item is rated according to
Activities a seven-level scale
▫ motor (13 items) scale
▫ Total dependency = 1
▫ cognitive (5 item) scale
▫ Complete independence = 7
The motor scale assesses
self-care, sphincter control,
mobility and locomotion. The answers dichotomized into:
The cognitive scale ▫ independent (6 and 7)
assesses communication ▫ dependent on personal
and social cognition. assistance (1 to 5) according
to the classifications in the
manual.
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Result
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2003
An occupational therapy
work skills assessment for
individuals with
head injury
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2014
Screening and Assessment
Tools for Determining
Fitness to Drive:
A Review of the Literature
for the Pathways Project
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Although there are General practice
occupational therapists
many procedures can use assessment tools
used to evaluate to assist in making clinical
occupational judgments to:
performance, using 1. determine fitness to
standardized drive at the extreme
Background assessment tools
ends (e.g., clearly not
fit or clearly fit),
or tools based on 2. assist in gathering
research evidence is data for the DRS by
critical to obtaining sharing assessment
reliable information outcomes in order to
decrease the work
for justifying load, and
services. 3. determine the
appropriate type and
time of a referral for a
comprehensive driving
evaluation.
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Table 1 Table 3
Identify evidence-based methods Assessments tools in the literature
for assessing fitness to drive, that designed to screen older adults for
address both the impairments as driving readiness or provide the
well as driving potential for older clinical portion of the
adults with medical conditions. comprehensive driving evaluation
Table 2 Table 4
Recent papers offering critical Studies focused on the
information clinicians should development of relatively new
consider before selecting any (publications from 2008 to the 2013)
assessment/screening tools or assessment tools.
drawing conclusions
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Table 5 Table 7
Studies using driving 25 studies that looked at
simulation as an assessment
dementia and driving
tool for determining fitness to
drive.
Table 6 Table 8
Table 9 Table 10
Address driving potential The main findings and
for individuals with implications for studies
stroke, Table 9 highlights addressing assessment
studies specifically and screening tools
identified as using applied to driving with
assessment tools to older adults as the target
measure impairment population (i.e., no
related to driving risk. identified impairment).
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Thank You
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