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Tue 03 Mar 2009Call for review of older driver screening
DRIVER ASSESSMENTS for those over 70 are a waste of time and do not help make the roads safer, one of Ireland’s best-known geriatricians has claimed.
Joint research carried out by Aois and Eolas, the centre for ageing, neurosciences and the humanities at Tallaght hospital and Yale University, has concluded that the current screening of drivers when they reach 70 is inefficient.
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