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Driving Tips - Adapting Your Car - Make Car Travel Arthritis-Friendly

Arthritis unfortunately causes pain, fatigue, limited range-of-motion, and other limitations that impact your function and can affect your driving ability. Information on arthritis-friendly car travel and other tips to help you continue driving safely. Learn more about assistive devices, aids, and adapting your car.
Driving Safely When You Take Medications
How can medications affect my ability to drive safely? Can I still drive safely if I am taking medications?
How To Obtain Handicapped Parking
People with chronic disabilities such as arthritis often wait too long before getting a handicapped parking permit. People think they don't qualify or its too much trouble, but it's not. Here's how to obtain a handicapped parking permit.
Gas Cap Wrench - Gas Cap Turner
People with arthritic or weak hands can have problems opening the gas cap on their car. A gas cap wrench or gas cap turner can add leverage, making the gas cap easier to open.
Driving Under the Influence: The Laws Also Apply to Prescriptions!
"DUI" means driving under the influence of not only alcohol and illegal drugs, but also medications prescribed by our doctors. If you don't know your meds, find out about them, be very familiar with how your body responds to them, and if there is the remotest doubt, have someone else drive.
101 Ways to Save Money On Car Expenses
You can save big money on your car expenses - thousands of dollars a year. The more cost-saving measures you adopt, the more money you'll save.
Use the Internet to Get the Best Deal on a New Car
Did you pay more than you should have for your last new car? Did you spend uncounted hours driving from dealership to dealership looking for the best deal, or exhausting hours haggling about the price and the value of your trade-in? If you're in the market for a car, you can save time, money, and frustration by using these sites on the Internet.
Buying Vs. Leasing Your Next Car
The ten things you must know before buying or leasing your next car. Which method is right for you?
How To Adapt Your Car To Your Arthritis
Driving and other problems can be vastly improved by making simple changes to your current car - or looking for specific features in a new one, from HSS.
Driving When You Have Arthritis
Driving is a complex skill. Our ability to drive safely can be affected by changes in our physical, emotional and mental condition, from NHTSA.
Driving with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Depending on the areas affected and functional ability, either a sedan or van may be an appropriate vehicle choice. Loss of joint mobility may result in diminished ability to reach, grasp, manipulate, and release objects, from driver-ed.org.
Freedom on Four Wheels
Few things say "independent" like getting behind the wheel of your car and breezing down the highway. While you may think this independence comes at the price of comfort, don't buy that bus pass yet. Automakers have heard your call for help, from Arthritis Foundation.
Occupational Therapists & Driving
Changes in your physical, mental, and sensory abilities can challenge your continued ability to drive safely. Occupational therapists trained in driver rehabilitation understand the critical demands of driving and how our ability to move about our community affects the quality of our lives, from AOTA.
National Institute on Aging: Older Drivers / Smart Driving Tips
Am I a safe driver? How does age affect driving? Is it time to give up driving?
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