Perspectives and Strategies for Promoting Safe Transportation Among Older Adults

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David W. Eby Lisa J. Molnar (Associate Director and Associate Research Scientist, UMTRI and Associate Director, ATLAS Center)

Perspectives and Strategies for Promoting Safe Transportation Among Older Adults

David W. Eby, Lisa J. Molnar (Associate Director and Associate Research Scientist, UMTRI and Associate Director, ATLAS Center), Renée M. St. Louis (Research Area Specialist, UMTRI and Education Coordinator, ATLAS Center)

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Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
26 November 2018

Transport law; Transport technology & trades; Intelligent & automated transport system technology

Promoting Safe Transportation among Older Adults: Perspectives and Strategies provides a concise, comprehensive, and up-to-date resource on safe mobility for an aging population. The book offers an interdisciplinary perspective for understanding and influencing the behavior of older adults with regard to their safe transportation. It is organized around the professions and disciplines that have a stake in the safe transportation of older adults and the role they play at each stage of their mobility needs. The book also addresses the various strategies that have been used to help keep older adults safe and mobile.

Readers will find great insights on key issues related to aging and mobility, giving them an overarching framework for how to maintain safe mobility into older adulthood. The book enables readers to understand the perspectives of the critical groups of people involved in keeping older people safe and explores existing strategies by which an aging individual can maintain safe mobility.

By: David W. Eby, Lisa J. Molnar (Associate Director and Associate Research Scientist, UMTRI and Associate Director, ATLAS Center), Renée M. St. Louis (Research Area Specialist, UMTRI and Education Coordinator, ATLAS Center)
Imprint: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 480g
ISBN: 9780128121535
ISBN 10: 012812153X
Pages: 292
Publication Date: 26 November 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lisa J. Molnar is Associate Director and Associate Research Scientist of UMTRI and Associate Director of the ATLAS Center. She is Secretary of the Transportation Research Board’s Committee on Safe Mobility of Older Persons, and Chair of the TRB Joint Subcommittee on Senior Mobility Options. Dr. Molnar is co-author of Maintaining Safe Mobility in an Aging Society and more than 150 scientific articles, technical reports, and book chapters. Renée M. St. Louis is Research Area Specialist at UMTRI and Education Coordinator for the ATLAS Center. She has a Master’s in Public Health with a focus on motor vehicle injury prevention.