Thanks for being concerned. And I'm glad that employee wouldn't let the woman driver either, but it is odd that she never came back out to check on the woman after calling the ambulance.

We have a 93 year old woman in our townhome complex that sort of still drives. She doesn't have her license anymore, but she still has a car and her keys and her nephew makes sure there's gas in the tank. Everyday that it's nice outside she will get in the car and drive around our block and out into the single family home section. She is still pretty safe there because they are just side streets (sort of) with no major roads, traffic or intersections and in theory, everyone else should be going a reasonable speed because it's a residential area. I know she does this to 1) convince herself that she still can, 2) so she know if she ever has to get someplace she can and 3) just to get out to of the house for awhile. We in the complex sort of make a joke of it although we all know she shouldn't be doing this. She never goes over 5-10 mph, ok maybe 15 on occassion, but still.

It's like Pam said, it's just so hard to convince the elderly to give up what they consider to be their "freedom."