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Why Is AAA Offering Brain Training to Older Drivers?

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Insurance Companies, Driving Fitness, Aging, Crash Rates, Cognitive Fitness, Mobility, Safety, Peter Kissinger, Traffic Safety, Policy, Seniors, Dmv, Insurance, Teens, AAA Foundation, Cognitive Training, Driver Safety, Posit Science, Computerized Cognitive Assessment, AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, Aaa, Driverzed, Drivesharp, Living News
Alvaro Fernandez

Peter Kissinger, CEO of the AAA Foundation: Part of making our nation's roads safer is helping mature drivers who wish to stay active -- a quickly growing population -- maintain or improve their driving safety.

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Debunking 10 Brain Health Myths

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 07.24.2009 | Living

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Alvaro Fernandez

Think about this: How can anyone take care of his or her brain when every week brings a new barrage of articles and studies which seem to contradict each other?

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Brain Training: It Works...Kind Of

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 03.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Brain Games, Brain Training, Alzheimer's, Posit Science, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, Brain Fitness, Brain Age, Living News
Alvaro Fernandez

In short, if you are considering buying some of these new brain training programs for yourself, your patients, a loved one...you do need to do a bit of homework.

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Allstate: Can Brain Training Help Improve Driver Safety?

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 11.07.2008 | Living

Read More: Older Drivers, Driving, Aging, Insight, Insurance, Driving Skills, Health, Auto Insurance, Safety, Allstate, Brain Training, Software, Posit Science, Brain Fitness, Teenagers, Living News
Alvaro Fernandez

Allstate, which called the Posit program "potentially the next big breakthrough in automobile safety," said it expects software exercises to reduce risky driving maneuvers by up to 40 percent.

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