When is it time for ageing loved ones to stop driving?

Anna, who asked to be identified only by her middle name because she fears her mother would disown her if she learned the truth, still hasn’t told her mom that she sparked an investigation into her driving last year.

“She still brings it up,” Anna said. “She’s just pissed.”

Anna’s mother, then 85, was living with chronic pain and memory problems that were making it harder to drive safely. She could barely turn her neck, and a series of minor crashes — including twice backing into the concrete barriers protecting gas pumps — convinced Anna that something had to change…

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