Transportation Resources Older Adults & Caregivers

Transportation Resources Older Adults & Caregivers

The National Center on Senior Transportation website, offers information and free resources to help you become more familiar with public transportation and the resources and services available in your community. The resources listed below offer directories of transportation-related services, information about safe driving, and policy discussions.

Transportation Providers and Programs

If you are looking for help finding senior friendly transportation in your region the Transportation Guidance web page provides links to resources that will help you.

Safe Driving Programs

National Association of Area Agencies on Aging’s Older Driver Safety Project http://www.n4a.org/older_driver_safety/research.cfm

AARP’s Driver Safety Program
http://www.aarp.org/families/driver_safety/

Safe Driving for Older Adults, tips for older drivers from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/olddrive/OlderAdultswebsite/

Supplemental Transportation Programs for Seniors – a report by the Beverly Foundation and the AAA Foundation that discusses the importance of different Supplemental Transportation Programs and transportation options for older adults once they stop driving.
http://www.aaafoundation.org/pdf/STP2.pdf

Mobility Options

Getting By Without Driving, a brochure published by the American Medical Association was developed for older drivers, caregivers, and physicians to provide safety information and driving alternatives for older Americans. Ideas and alternatives for driving are included, along with information on home delivery services and agencies offering assistance to older Americans who do not drive.
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/433/get_by_without_drive.pdf

The Surface Transportation Policy Project, in coordination with AARP and the American Public Transportation Association, wrote Aging Americans: Stranded Without Options (pdf) which concludes that as Americans grow older, our existing transportation network is unable to meet their needs of the nation’s aging population particularly as they become less willing and able to drive.
http://www.transact.org/report.asp?id=232

Community Livability
AARP’s Policy and Research section of its Web site offers extensive content related to the topics of housing, mobility and care options
http://www.aarp.org/research/housing-mobility/

The Complete Streets initiative endeavors to build road networks that welcome all citizens not just drivers.
http://completestreets.org/

Aging in Place Initiative – a publication by the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (n4a) and Partners for Livable Communities that helps community leaders in developing an action plan to ensure programs and services are in place so that communities are good places to grow old.
http://aipi.n4a.org/

Eldercare Locator

A telephone and web based service of the Administration on Aging (AoA). Older adults and their caregivers can locate eldercare resources, local area agencies on aging and community-based organizations in any state.
http://www.eldercare.gov/Eldercare/Public/Home.asp

Vision Loss

The American Federation for the Blind has developed a section targeting older Americans diagnosed with low vision. The site links to a comprehensive database of senior services covering both the United States and Canada.
http://www.afb.org/seniorsitehome.asp

If you have a disability

Easter Seals Project ACTION is a national program that brings together the issues of people with disabilities and providers of public transportation. If you have a disability, you have rights to access wherever a public transportation system exists (this extends to providers of taxi service and over-the-road bus service, such as tour vehicles). ESPA also offers information on how to use transit and explains rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
http://www.projectaction.org/

Source: National Center on Senior Transportation website

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