Who is “they”?
Apps when I searched App Store. Looks like I need to go back to class for the phone I bought at the end of February when my iPhone 7 died in my hand. I still can’t seem to figure out how to track his phone on mine, but at least this morning I discovered where all my passwords now live. Will that keep me from searching and searching under settings again? Probably not! Also I was able to delete 5,000+ unread emails from his phone, so that’s progress!
You don’t need to go to the App Store.
Sorry about his declined mental acuity. With family in San Juan Capistrano, I encourage you to go to dmv (link below) and submit a request to retest. Despite your belief that he "shows no impairment driving," someone that does not know their own address, and can't find his diapers, should not be behind the wheel of a killing machine. It is not fair to those children and families whose live could be ended in an instant.
www.dmv.ca.gov
Because he only scored 21 out of 30 points last October on the annual cognitive test at the old folks home, he has been put on six month retesting. I checked with Health Services the other day and if the DMV does renew his license the staff here will send in the proper form. I have no doubt he’d pass an actual driving test with a DMV employee, but I suspect they’ll start with an interview when/if they need to have him come back in. After my dad took out the side of someone’s car while parking when he was 85, he was invited to an office in an office park (not at the DMV) for an interview. Dad had no apparent cognitive issues and was then set up for a driving test. They said he “didn’t merge smoothly “ on to the freeway, but invited him to make another appointment and try again. Dad instead gave up his license due to other health issues. Cliff has compromised short term memory, that’s why I hope someone asks him some simple questions he can’t answer on Tuesday so we can pull the license sooner rather than later. I plan to point him at the front door and sit outside trying to sync my new phone to the car. That way I’m not tempted to try to point him at the correct window at the DMV counter.Sorry about his declined mental acuity. With family in San Juan Capistrano, I encourage you to go to dmv (link below) and submit a request to retest. Despite your belief that he "shows no impairment driving," someone that does not know their own address, and can't find his diapers, should not be behind the wheel of a killing machine. It is not fair to those children and families whose live could be ended in an instant.
Deteriorated Driving Abilities - California DMV
Sometimes, a driver’s declining mental or physical state means that they can no longer drive safely.
You do know that Cliff can continue to drive even if his license gets “pulled”. Elderly people do this all of the time.
I’ve already thought of that. That means after I hide his key really well, mine needs to always be with me so he doesn’t go out while I’m down the hall or in the clubhouse playing cards. It’s not that he necessarily will be sneaky, he simply won’t remember.
Just give "his" key to a family member or put them both on the same ring you keep.
Those testers are risking their lives on some of those driving tests. Why would they ever invite someone to try again?
My husband could drive, but could not read the eye chart. He insisted there was no line four and argued with the examiner. He was denied license renewal. When we went back to get a one day pass to take behind the wheel test, he read line four with no problem but did not pass the driving test as he went real slow so he wouldn’t be accused of speeding. I had been doing all the driving for over a year, but he wanted a license. Such is life with a person with dementia. He never drove again, but did blame me until the day he died.
And on the freeway no less! Dad hadn’t been on the freeway in over five years. We all thought he should have said “I don’t drive on the freeway anymore”. Heck Mom NEVER drove on the Southern California freeways in 65 years of living here!
I have seen this so many times. When I worked in long term care we had many spouses, usually husbands, of our residents who lost their license either for medical reasons, too many demerit points, or failing their annual test, who continued to drive. One day one of a resident's husband pulled into the parking lot narrowly missing hitting my car as he pulled into the parking spot beside me. I knew his Dr had pulled his license many months earlier. When he got out I asked if he had gotten his license back he said "nope, they took away my license but they didnt take away my keys!" On his wife's request we called his son to come over. The son said he knew his dad was continuing to drive but he didnt know how to stop him. We suggested that he should maybe disable something on the car so it wouldn't start. He said he had pulled the battery cables, the distributor cap and let the air out of 2 tires at different times but his dad just called CAA (AAA) and had them fixed. We suggested that he might need to get tough and see if the police would come and talk to him, and then maybe sell the car, if his dad would sign the ownership.
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When my husband got 21on the cognitive test, he was pretty far along. I witnessed the test many times, and it is not very hard.
YES. The rationalizing of “no highway driving” doesn’t negate the absolute danger of local driving. We all see stories in the news or on social media of some elderly person plowing into a building & it’s the initial “my brake was stuck!” and eventually we learn nothing was mechanically wrong with the car.
