This handbook has been written as a starting point to help you, the driving instructor, to teach older drivers. You already have extensive knowledge and skills for teaching learner drivers but improving the skills of older, experienced drivers requires a different approach. The proportion of the Australian population over 60 years of age will double over the next 30 years and the majority will be drivers. Older drivers want to maintain driving independence and so the need for driver education and retraining, which caters to their needs, should increase. Use of this handbook will help you to understand the needs of older drivers and teaching methods to assist them to become better drivers. It should be used in conjunction with the Older Driver Handbook, already widely distributed to older drivers (refer Resources section). You should familiarise yourself with the contents of both handbooks and any other relevant publications prior to undertaking lessons with older drivers and then review specific sections as required when you are giving lessons. (Author/publisher)
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