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Access to Health Care and Nonemergency Medical Transportation: Two Missing Links, Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board

January, 2005

Older adults and residents of rural areas continue to rely on personal vehicles; they often have few, if any, options when a car is not available (e.g., Americans over 65 make about 90% of their trips by car, and 97% of rural households own at least one car).

Author

Richard Wallace, Paul Hughes-Cromwick, Hillary Mull, and Snehamay Khasnabis, Wayne State