{"id":525821,"date":"2010-04-13T09:55:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T13:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.utk.edu\/tntoday\/?p=19972"},"modified":"2010-04-13T09:55:52","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T13:55:52","slug":"in-the-news-abc-world-news-new-guidelines-issued-on-driving-with-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/525821","title":{"rendered":"In the News: ABC World News: New Guidelines Issued on Driving With Dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story on ABC World News with Diane Sawyer highlighted the work of a UT Graduate School of Medicine professor being conducted in partnership with faculty in UT Knoxville&#8217;s Southeastern Transportation Center (STC) and College of Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. John Dougherty, who is also the medical director of the Cole Neuroscience Center at UT Medical Center, is using a high-tech driving simulator to test the driving abilities of those who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer&#8217;s or dementia. The simulator is the result of a partnership between STC, the College of Engineering and private donors. The story coincided with the announcement of new guidelines on driving and dementia from the American Academy of Neurology.<\/p>\n<p>To read the story, visit the ABC World News <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/WN\/AlzheimersNews\/guidelines-issed-elderly-driving-dementia-alzheimers-diagnosis\/story?id=10355282\">Web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"W4ae8d36a3102598f4bc46f63a73fccb3\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"332\" height=\"270\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"data\" value=\"http:\/\/widgets.clearspring.com\/o\/4ae8d36a3102598f\/4bc46f63a73fccb3\/4ae8d36a3102598f\/3c6fa713\/-cpid\/6a39c78b6915555\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowNetworking\" value=\"all\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/widgets.clearspring.com\/o\/4ae8d36a3102598f\/4bc46f63a73fccb3\/4ae8d36a3102598f\/3c6fa713\/-cpid\/6a39c78b6915555\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed id=\"W4ae8d36a3102598f4bc46f63a73fccb3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"332\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/widgets.clearspring.com\/o\/4ae8d36a3102598f\/4bc46f63a73fccb3\/4ae8d36a3102598f\/3c6fa713\/-cpid\/6a39c78b6915555\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allownetworking=\"all\" wmode=\"transparent\" data=\"http:\/\/widgets.clearspring.com\/o\/4ae8d36a3102598f\/4bc46f63a73fccb3\/4ae8d36a3102598f\/3c6fa713\/-cpid\/6a39c78b6915555\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story on ABC World News with Diane Sawyer highlighted the work of a UT Graduate School of Medicine professor being conducted in partnership with faculty in UT Knoxville&#8217;s Southeastern Transportation Center (STC) and College of Engineering. Dr. John Dougherty, who is also the medical director of the Cole Neuroscience Center at UT Medical Center, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}