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Social @ UHN DriverLab technology will keep everyone

safer on the roads

In the past year, people on
LinkedIn engaged with our Imagine a world where a customized license gives the most advanced driving simulator in Canada, and
stories more than 900 times. your elderly mother the freedom to drive during unique in the world.

the day, but not at night. Where you don’t need to DriverLab is designed to study the impact of our
816 168 worry about the hazard she may be posing to herself health on driving performance, with an aim to

– or others – on the road, while she maintains the
Shares Comments independence that matters so much to her. increase driver safety in healthy older adults and
people living with injury or illness.
Where your brother, who suffers from chronic pain, The technology comes at a time when vehicle
University Health Network can take a prescribed dose of medication that has been collisions represent the number-one cause of
@UHN proven to be safe while driving, without interfering accidental death in Canada, and cost Canadians $62.7
with performance.
Welcoming our patients, @Kathleen_Wynne, @SenSanders billion per year.
& @docdanielle today at Toronto General Hospital to Where you, exhausted after years of sleep apnea, won’t Global numbers are equally staggering: Every year,
discuss a single-payer healthcare system. risk nodding off in your car, because it can actually 1.24 million people around the world die in motor
Popular sense, and warn you, of your drowsiness. vehicle collisions and up to 50 million people suffer
in October Where we all benefit from the assistance that from disabling injuries.

driverless vehicles can offer.
Older adults are far too often involved in these statistics.
Researchers at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute are
accelerating our efforts to get there, with DriverLab – Link to full story: click here.

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Michener Institute to lead development
• Toronto Rehab housekeeper makes patients feel at home of provincial personal support worker
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• UHN Patient Experience committed to being compassionate, collaborative and responsive

• Celebrating the bounty of Toronto Rehab’s vegetable gardens Real rain helps to recreate common challenging conditions experienced
in DriverLab. (Photo: UHN)

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