Bless you for being concerned and trying to help!! I too am disturbed that no one from the pharmacy came back out. She most definitely could have taken off and, with the intersection the way you describe it, she would have probably not been able to handle going through it and there would have been an accident. I am also puzzled by the way the paramedics treated you. Maybe they thought you were interfering. Unfortunately, if you were, I wish more people would interfere! I hope that woman got the care she needed and I hope that she has family to help her. It certainly sounds like she doesn't, though, or she would have never been driving in the first place.

I work for an ophthalmologist and I can't tell you how hard it is to convince some of our senior citizens that they shouldn't be driving. Some of them are driving with 20/50 vision and worse! I think yearly drivers' tests past a certain age should be mandatory. It would sure make it easier on the families of seniors who are trying to get their loved one to hang up their keys. "Gee, _____(fill in name) you failed your test, so now we will need to make other arrangements for you to get around. " Many seniors look at it as their last area of independence and realize they will be totally dependent on others once they turn in their keys. It is so hard to be firm with them but their lives, and others, are at stake should they remain behind the wheel. Getting my mom to give up driving was like pulling teeth!

I wish there was a way you could follow-up with this woman and see if she is going to be OK. Some day we will all be old and we will walk in her shoes. Thanks again for trying to help.