With a Little Help From My Friends and Family: Transportation and Caregiving Hours
This study explored how caregiver transportation assistance and care recipient driving frequency are associated with caregiving hours.
Jonathon M. Vivoda • Jiawei Cao • Athena Koumoutzis
All are not created equal: Assessing initial driving self-regulation behaviors among older adults
Mobility is closely tied to the ability to safely drive. In older adulthood, many people begin to avoid difficult driving situations, such as driving at night, during rush hour, on freeways, or in ...
Guohua Li • Nicole Zanier • David Strogatz • Vanya Jones • Lisa J. Molnar • Jacqui Smith • David W. Eby • Jennifer S. Zakrajsek • Carolyn DiGuiseppi • Linda V. Nyquist • Raymond Yung • Renée M. St Louis • Jonathon M. Vivoda
The influence of hearing impairment on driving avoidance among a large cohort of older drivers
As people age, some of the commonly experienced psychomotor, visual, and cognitive declines can interfere with the ability to safely drive, often leading to situational avoidance of challenging dri...
Carolyn DiGuiseppi • Lidia P. Kostyniuk • Linda V. Nyquist • David Joseph LeBlanc • Nicole Zanier • Jacqui Smith • Renée M. St Louis • Jonathon M. Vivoda • David W. Eby • Scott E. Bogard • Lisa J. Molnar • Jennifer S. Zakrajsek • David Strogatz • Raymond Yung
Most older adults will eventually stop driving, but few engage in planning for driving retirement.
Athena Koumoutzis • Jonathon M. Vivoda • Annie C. Harmon • Jiawei Cao • Ganesh M. Babulal
Family satisfaction: Differences between nursing homes and residential care facilities
This study compared differences in overall family satisfaction, specific satisfaction domains, and correlates of satisfaction between nursing homes (NHs) and residential care facilities (RCFs), usi...
Nytasia M. Hicks • Katherine Wood • Jonathon M. Vivoda • Nader Mehri
How accumulated wealth affects driving reduction and cessation
(DRC) are not equally experienced by all groups. Individual characteristics such as poor health, impaired vision, older age, and female gender are known to affect DRC.
Ryan Michael Walker • Jiawei Cao • Jonathon M. Vivoda • Athena Koumoutzis
This study used data from 70 companies from a range of industries to assess the relationship between companies’ self-reported fleet safety management practices/policies and collision/injury m...
Stephanie G. Platt • Susan J. Gillies • Jonathon M. Vivoda
Driving status and religious service attendance among older Americans
This study investigated the relationship between driving status and religious service attendance among older Americans and how the perceived importance of religion influences the relationship.
Sara J. McLaughlin • Jonathon M. Vivoda • Cathleen M. Connell • Karen M. Brown
This study assessed satisfaction among current senior center users in the Northwestern Ohio area and measured the impact that centers have on the lives of participants.
Valerie Flores (Valerie Kessler) • Luyna Ducay • Jonathon M. Vivoda
E-hail (rideshare) knowledge, use, reliance, and future expectations among older adults
The goals of this study were to explore e-hail (e.g., Uber/Lyft) knowledge, use, reliance, and future expectations among older adults. Specifically, to identify factors that were related to e-hail,...
Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher • Annie C. Harmon • Ganesh M. Babulal • Jonathon M. Vivoda
This exploratory study examined: how strongly subjectively reported driving avoidance behaviors (commonly referred to as self-regulation) and exposure were related to their objectively measured cou...
Carolyn DiGuiseppi • Lisa J. Molnar • Scott E. Bogard • Thelma J. Mielenz • Michael J. Rovine • David W. Eby • J. S. Zakraksek • Jacqui Smith • Linda V. Nyquist • Renée M. St Louis • the LongROAD Research Team • David Strogatz • Lindsay Ryan • Raymond Yung • Guohua Li • David Joseph LeBlanc • Jonathon M. Vivoda • Nicole Zanier
Planning for a nondriving future: Behaviors and beliefs among drivers 53-92
Despite the reality of older adults living many years after driving cessation, few prepare for the eventuality; empirically, planning for a nondriving future has not been directly quantified or exp...
David B. Carr • Annie C. Harmon • Ganesh M. Babulal • Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher • Jonathon M. Vivoda
Participant Satisfaction and the Impact of Senior Center Services in Lucas County, Ohio
This study addressed satisfaction with services and impact of senior centers among center participants in Lucas County, Ohio.
Michelle M. McGuire • Jonathon M. Vivoda
The Influence of the Transportation Environment on Driving Reduction and Cessation
Driving is by far the most common mode of transportation in the United States, but driving ability is known to decline as people experience age-related functional declines.