60,000 elderly drivers in Japan suspected of having dementia: police

About 60,000 drivers aged 75 and over were judged as possibly suffering dementia during the process of renewing their licenses in the first year of stricter screening for the disease, the National Police Agency said Thursday.The revised road traffic law requiring elderly drivers to see doctors if dementia is suspected in preliminary screening took effect on March 12 last year with fatal accidents involving senior citizens becoming a major social issue in the face of the rapid aging of the population.The agency said in a report that 2,105,477 holders of driver's licenses took cognitive funct…READ FULL ARTICLE