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[quote=Anonymous]Both my parents are almost 76.  My father drives fine and his wife, who is in her mid 60s is keeping an eye on it.  They recently moved out here from the west coast and she is very conscious of his lack of experience in snow, etc.  I feel perfectly safe driving with him.

My mother is a very different story.  She is 100% there in her thinking, but her vision and reflexes are not.  I asked her to have a third party test her driving and she passed, but I have to say she scares me in terms of her spatial awareness and not seeing stop signs at night for personal experience.  But there is always an "excuse" for the lapse. BHer eye doctor has also said she is fine to drive.  I have no ability to stop her but I will not get in a car with her and I will not let her drive my children.  We do not talk about it because it gets her worked up and changes nothing.  She has a very strained relationship with my sister who basically did an intervention.

It has me planning to be a little more reasonable when I reach her age and I am looking forward to self driving cars.

AARP has some videos online for family members thinking about how to talk to parents about driving issues and aging.

My mother will call me when she gets home if we are together, which is good.  I also have stopped using her for babysitting because I don't want to be responsible for her driving at night.  This actually has hindered her relationship with my kids and it makes me sad that that is not enough of a reason for her to try and work with me on this.  She used to see them at least once a week but it always involved her driving.  [/quote]

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