Beth T. Stalvey

TL;DR: Results replicated earlier studies showing that many older drivers limit their exposure to driving situations which are generally believed to be more difficult, and those with the most impairment reported avoiding more types of situations than other less impaired or non-impaired drivers.

TL;DR: Older drivers with cataract experience a restriction in their driving mobility and a decrease in their safety on the road, even after adjustments for the confounding effects of advanced age, impaired general health, mental status deficit, or depression.

TL;DR: Severe contrast sensitivity impairment due to cataract elevates at-fault crash risk among older drivers, even when present in only 1 eye.

TL;DR: The Life Space Questionnaire (LSQ) as discussed by the authors is a questionnaire instrument designed to measure life space in community-dwelling older adults, which can be used to establish the spatial extent of an older person's mobility and may ultimately be useful as an outcome measure in studies evaluating interventions designed to enhance mobility and independence.

TL;DR: Patients withCataract who underwent cataract surgery and intraocular lens implantation had half the rate of crash involvement during the follow-up period compared with catarACT patients who did not undergo surgery, suggesting that cataracts may have a previously undocumented benefit for older driver safety, reducing subsequent crash rate.