Seniors with memory problems and related attention and decision-making issues may struggle with driving tasks, according to a Canadian study. Not all patients with mild cognitive impairment, the early stage of memory loss, have issues with driving, the researchers write in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. To study how mild cognitive impairment affects driving ability, Schweizer and colleagues recruited 24 patients with memory loss. Overall, patients with mild cognitive impairment committed more than twice as many driving errors as the cognitively healthy drivers. When researchers analyzed data on the two groups separately, however, they found that seniors with only memory issues were not more likely than healthy drivers to make errors.

Source: Egypt Independent January 14, 2017 13:57 UTC