Mishawaka Professional Becomes Certified in the “Beyond Driving with Dignity” Program

MISHAWAKA, Ind. - Aug. 14, 2015 - PRLog -- Keeping Us Safe is proud to announce that Sandi Knight has successfully completed an intensive training program and is now certified as one of the Nation’s “Beyond Driving with Dignity” professionals.

The “Beyond Driving with Dignity” professional certification program has been designed to equip Knight and other professionals throughout the United States and Canada with tools necessary to help older drivers and their families work through the complicated issue of age-related diminishing driving skills.

Having received this certification, Knight is now well-suited to provide older drivers and their families with a very specific program that will help make decisions on how to keep the older driver safe.  As a caregiver trainer with Home Instead Senior Care, Knight will begin providing the “Beyond Driving with Dignity” program in the South Bend, Mishawaka and Elkhart areas effective immediately.

“The ‘Beyond Driving with Dignity’ program provides concerned families with a solution to their concerns, offering new-relief to families concerned about a loved-one’s safe driving abilities as they relate to the natural aging process”, explains Knight.  “Keeping Us Safe’s ‘self-assessment program for older drivers’ provides concerned families with the missing link between their desire to bring the driving issue to a peaceful resolution, and their ability to actually do so", she added.

Matt Gurwell, founder of Keeping Us Safe, explains that “The Beyond Driving with Dignity program is designed to be a common-sense approach to facilitate (and often times mediate!) appropriate, common-sense driving-related solutions based on tangible facts and personal observations.“

Knight can be reached at Home Instead Mishawaka by telephoning 574-208-9006 or by email at sandra.knight@homeinstead.com.

The “Beyond Driving with Dignity” professional will receive annual in-service trainings will have to meet standards of professionalism to maintain their certification.  For more information on the program please visit www.keepingussafe.org.  Media inquiries are asked to call 216-904-8841 for additional details.