Driver rehabilitation programs: defining program models, services, and expertise.

This paper highlights the critical need for a diverse span of services targeted at older drivers that is clear and understandable to health care professionals, service providers, and consumers. The paper describes how a panel of expert driver rehabilitation specialists and researchers on older drivers affirmed consensus statements addressing the need for clarification of terms and services. It also presents a new document that describes a spectrum of driver services from education to specific driver rehabilitation services. The document will provide consumers, referral sources, payers, and stakeholders invested in older drivers' services, with the information to refer the right people to the right service at the right time.

Meeting the occupational needs of a neurologically impaired client for driving: a case review.

Driving as a means of community mobility is an activity highly valued by individuals. When a medical condition impacts a person's ability to drive, occupational therapy practitioners should address this instrumental task of daily living with the client in order for the client to know if and when return to driving might be possible. This case review illustrates how the task of driving motivated a neurologically impaired client in therapy as well as how driving evaluation and driving rehabilitation intervention should not be done in isolation, but with the communication that will optimally assist the client to return to functional performance.