Strategies to evaluate drivers with reduced mobility

Abstract

This study aims to present strategies to evaluation drivers with reduced mobility for occupational therapists. Among the Instrumental Activities of Daily Life (AIVD), mobility in the community, specifically driving a car, is an activity that promotes autonomy, well-being and participation in the community. Fitness to drive is the driver who integrates dynamically motor, visual and cognitive skills. Also the driver needs demonstrate knowledge in traffic legislation, control the vehicle and have validity in the National Driver’s License (CNH). The data were produced between 2011 and 2012 through bibliographic, documental review and empiric research. The databases was LILACs.The Brazilian transit legislation has contextualized the norms in this country. The cross-sectional descriptive is part of the research called “A descriptive study of the performance of motor vehicles in people diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease”. A structured questionnaire in the English language was applied for two North American occupational therapists. The study presented the description of the occupational therapist as driver rehabilitation. There are description assessment procedures the occupational therapists including their practice field and expected performance to drive a vehicle.