Efforts are underway to measure and improve senior
Bloomington, Illinois ® .- State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), in order to measure and perhaps be improved cognitive abilities of older drivers.
Researchers UAB to a new method for evaluating the conduct cognitive. The 20-minute assessment was in several places around Alabama since August, 2004. Well, it is also available online. All clients firm of the State of Alabama, 75 and over, claim the evaluation. According to the results, these customers can obtain a discount of State Farm. But regardless of whether the client off on the right that he or she is perhaps to attend a free training program to improve his conduct cognitive.
“We are very pleased to State Farm in this important research,” said psychologist UAB Karlene Ball, PhD. “We all believe, inexpensive, early assessment is the key to early intervention and therefore security. ”
Research has shown that drivers are increasingly vulnerable to accidents every year after 75 years.
Participation is voluntary. The results of evaluations are handled confidentially. The program is funded by a grant from the National Institute on Aging.
“The population of drivers 75 and older is growing faster than any other segment of our population,” said State Farm Vice President Agency Karen Carter. “And we’re full with discounts up ’some assurance of our leaders. But for some seniors, many more value must be regarded as a rebate is to recognize that his or her cognitive abilities have eroded the conduct and the possibility toll something to be done.
State Farm has a long history of involvement initiatives automatic safety, and we are pleased that a significant part of these efforts to activate the security feature for all drivers of direction, not just those that reassure us, “said Carter. “Indeed, one of the great things about the insurance industry is their intrinsic interest in loss prevention”
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