Webinar: Reporting on fitness to drive in dementia in Ontario: What’s new since 2018?
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Event type: Single day (a day or less)
In this webinar a geriatrician and a geriatric psychiatrist will describe dementia-related driving risks, review recent changes to Fitness to Drive reporting policy in Ontario, and discuss how to interpret and deal with these changes in clinical practice.
SPEAKERS:
Dr. Gary Naglie is a Professor in the Department of Medicine and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto, and he holds the Hunt Family Chair in Geriatric Medicine. He is the Vice President of Medical Services and Chief of Staff, and Chief of the Department of Medicine at Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, and is a Scientist at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute. His research focuses on driving issues in older adults and innovative models of care for frail, complex older adults. Dr. Naglie is the Co-Lead with Dr. Mark Rapoport of the Driving and Dementia Research Team for the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging, which is supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and other partners.
Dr. Mark Rapoport is a Professor in the geriatric psychiatry division of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, a clinical scientist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, and past-president of the Canadian Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry (CAGP, 2012-2016). He founded two widely-recognized annual national review courses in geriatric psychiatry, and his main area of research focuses on motor vehicle collisions associated with neurological and psychiatric illness.