Freewheeling After Sixty: Design Your Personalized Transportation System

Bonilla, Judi

ISBN 10: 099765242X / ISBN 13: 9780997652420

Published by Advocates for Aging, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Freewheeling After Sixty: Design Your Personalized Transportation System
• Publisher: Advocates for Aging
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 099765242X
• ISBN 13: 9780997652420
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Why is driving so important? In America, driving is associated with independence, freedom, and quality of life. For olders stopping driving or the possibility of not driving often triggers strong emotions. Aging expert and author Judi Bonilla says it’s time to change the narrative about driving while older. She says it’s time to shift the focus on older drivers choosing a transportation system that works for them. Instead of having the “It’s time to give up the keys talk.” By developing a personal system supporting driving as long as you can do so safely. While also experiencing transportation alternatives such as travel training and ridesharing. Health and social service providers identify older adult transportation as the #1 issue as a want, a need, and a challenge. In Freewheeling After Sixty learn how to design a personalized transportation system. A system that reflects the community resources and needs of olders. This is the perfect book for anyone who answers yes to these statements.• I avoid driving a night• I drive less than before• I limit how far I drive

About the Author

For over a decade Judi Bonilla has been researching and developing programs to improve the safety of experienced drivers. In addition, she has developed travel training programs focused on empowering drivers with choice. As an aging expert and gerontologist her work focuses on innovation.  She asks, "What if" to identify powerful solutions facing older adults. Freewheeling after Sixty is a catalyst for changing how we think about driving. 

• What if we changed the keys conversation from independence to interdependence? 
• What if we asked experience what they really wanted? 
• What if transportation became part of retirement and aging in place planning?
• What if every adult over age 60 became part of the age-friendly initiative to communities.

Those questions led to the invention of the Personalized Transportation System (PTS) and Freewheeling after Sixty. Judi is now on a mission to educate 40,000 experienced drivers by 2020 on their transportation options.