In this session, Dr Paul Donaghy will cover:
• Review of evidence of clinical predictors of driving safety
• Key points from consensus guidelines: Driving with Dementia or Mild Cognitive Impairment
• Case studies looking at decisions that need to be made by clinicians
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    Dr Paul Donaghy
    Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist, Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust and NIHR Intermediate Clinical Fellow, Newcastle University
    Paul is an NIHR Intermediate Fellow at the NIHR Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre based at Newcastle University. His research interests include dementia with Lewy bodies and driving with dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

    Along with Professor John-Paul Taylor and Ms Kirsty Olsen he led the development of National Guidelines for driving with dementia or MCI. These guidelines have been endorsed by the RCPsych and MSNAP among others.

    He and Kirsty Olsen are currently researching clinical predictors of driving safety in a project funded by the Alzheimer’s Society.