In Florida, Aging Population Struggles to Get Around [View all]

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(Orlando, FL — WMFE) With more than three million residents over the age of 65, Florida’s population has the highest proportion of senior citizens of any state in the US. One challenge facing many of Florida’s seniors is how to get out and about once they can no longer drive.

In Orlando, some 300 seniors subscribe to the Independent Transportation Network private non-profit car service. Bea Chernok uses ITN a couple of times a week, for everything from doctors visits to social excursions.

“Last week, on a Sunday, they took me down to the Carr Auditorium, I saw an opera, they picked me up, and I wasn’t afraid,” she says.

Chernok says ordinarily she wouldn’t go out at night, but she feels safe with the ITN drivers, like John McCallister. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://transportationnation.org/2012/05/01/in-florida-aging-population-struggles-to-get-around/