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When my FIL did that, it was the end of driving. The neighbors contacted one of his sons, and they took away the keys. End of story.

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How did they get around after that? Real question because I know we will be in your shoes soon. I am trying to get my parents used to the idea of just calling a taxi if they need someone to take them to a doctors appointment, but they resist resist resist. Uber is way beyond them. [/quote]

FIL lived in an exurb, so it definitely curtailed his exposure to new environments and people, and ultimately perhaps led to a more rapid decline. But the alternative was unacceptable, and his neighbors made that very clear: he'd scraped up his neighbors' cars on two occasions, in a community with lots of little kids walking about.

Since MIL never drove, they called taxis to get to appointments and social events, and when their sons were free, got driven about by one of them. They could afford it, but psychologically, it did make a difference to how they thought about transport. They had mixed feelings about it: on one hand, they were both relieved that FIL would get into an accident. On the other, there was a psychological barrier to arranging for a taxi every time they wanted to go far, and especially calling a taxi to return home from a random place, because of using a cell phone, or asking to use the location's landline, getting the address correct when requesting the taxi, all kinds of executive functioning issues.

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