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Activity 4 \u2013 The Elderly Driver<\/p>\n
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The Elderly Driver<\/p>\n
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It was late in the afternoon on a sunny April day. \u00a0Maybe it was the sun in her eyes, but 82-year-old Janet found herself in her car in a ditch at the side of the road, unsure of how she got there. \u00a0Once at the hospital, her son and daughter joined her and heard the good news that Janet had escaped with just a broken arm. \u00a0The police report strongly suggested that she swerved off the road, but it was not clear why.<\/p>\n
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This was not Janet\u2019s first driving \u201cepisode\u201d; in fact, her driving had been a constant worry to her daughter for over two years. \u00a0Her daughter often offered to take her Mom shopping and insisted that she do the driving when they were together. \u00a0\u201cDon\u2019t you trust me?\u201d was the only thanks the daughter received. \u00a0 When alone, Janet continued to drive herself, staying off the freeway and increasingly driving only during the day. \u00a0She knew it wasn\u2019t as easy as it used to be, but it was her lifeline to independence.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The, a few months after the April accident, the form for Janet\u2019s license renewal arrived. \u00a0A vision test and a physical exam were required, along with a doctor\u2019s certification that Janet was in good health and capable of driving; however, no road test was required. So Janet made the doctor\u2019s appointment and at the end of it she left with the forms with a note for the doctor saying, \u201cTo the best doctor I\u2019ve ever had. \u00a0Thanks for filling this out. You know how much driving means to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
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On Janet\u2019s way home from the doctor\u2019s office, it happened. \u00a0She was driving down the road when suddenly she was crossing that tallow line and heading toward an oncoming car. \u00a0The teenage driver might have been going a bit too fast, or even texting, but Janet was in the wrong lane and the head-on collision killed the 16 year old in the passenger seat who was also not wearing a seat belt. \u00a0The 18-year-old driver walked away from the accident unharmed, thanks to an inflated airbag.<\/p>\n
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Janet was never the same emotionally. \u00a0And despite escaping the accident with a few bruises, the loss of her driver\u2019s license symbolized the end for her. \u00a0Those lost weekly shopping trips and the strangers in the Helped Living Center were not the same as living in her own home. \u00a0The young man in the accident screaming for help woke her up almost every night. \u00a0It was only a year after the accident when Janet died, and it was just like she had said: \u00a0\u201cTake my license away and it will kill me.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Discussion Questions<\/p>\n
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Please discuss and highlight the role of the various stakeholders in this case.<\/p>\n
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How does this case reflect the important issue of balancing the legal rights of the individual and the rights of society as a whole?<\/p>\n
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How could we address the larger issues presented in this case from a community health perspective? \u00a0How can we change this health behavior?<\/p>\n
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How could we address the larger issues presented in this case from an environmental and occupational health perspective? \u00a0What would be the different environments we would look to either change or improve?<\/p>\n
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What would be the data that we would want to collect from this case study? \u00a0What information or importance would each bit of data collection provide?<\/p>\n
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Create several health policies and\/or laws that emerged from this case.<\/p>\n
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