The car is a strong vector of autonomy for seniors. But they no longer see so well, no longer have so many reflexes. It is often up to the family to make his loved one understand that he must stop driving, or even forbid him. Hard hard…
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These are maneuvers while avoiding. Car keys that are hidden, pretexts to cancel a trip, clumsy discussions. “What if I was driving?” Olivier suggested to his father, who no longer pronounced a word from the rest of the road while continuing to drive, in Nantes. Aurélie, 41, keeps in mind the day her father, 86, wanted to roll alone towards a Parisian hospital after a stroke. He ran to her afterwards to recover the car keys she had confiscated to her. He hates that another takes the wheel … In Carantec, in Finistère, Anne remembers a cat and mouse game with her father, when he was 85 years old. “He said:” I’m going to the bakery. “We said:” It’s good we have bread. “” I need to go to Morlaix. “We answered:” We can go tomorrow “… he Insisted because we couldn’t say to him simply: “You must not drive”. “” It’s hard to say also for yourself, it’s one more step towards the loss of your parents such as Let us know them, “says Catherine who, in Vienna (Isère), looked for her words to say” I think that there you were lucky “, after a final swerve by her father, whose car had climbed on the pavement. Installed in an alpine village, Frédéric, music teacher, took badly that his son suggests to settle in town to no longer depend on his car, “as if our roles were reversed …”
Addressing the subject of the conduct of the elders is to expose themselves to frustrations, anger … between (great) parents and (great) children, but also in siblings. “My father lived up to 95 years. The last twenty years of his life, my sisters harassed him so that he stopped driving when he had never had an accident and he parked perfectly His car before dying … “, gets angry Eva, septuagenarian, when the subject was mentioned. 2> less accidents than young people
And yet, let us beware of these stories: they are the ones we are talking about but they are also the rarest, explains Sylvie Bonin-Guillaume, vice-president of the French Society of Gériatrie. These are often stories of men, too. Women observe this member of the National Road Security Council, stop easier and sometimes too quickly even. “We don’t need to be rough. In most cases, people stop taking the wheel spontaneously and for good reasons.” And as often when we talk about the subject, she recalls that seniors cause less ‘Accidents than very young. “You have to get out of received ideas like” it is old, so it can no longer drive “.” We would better listen to it, to talk about the risks linked to medical worries … and it turns out that the older ones suffer more often pathologies.
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