| Mobility Scooters are becoming a much more | | | | scooters are also available to enable users to travel |
| acceptable option to individuals who need mobility | | | | on the road. |
| assistance but are not necessarily restricted to the | | | | Mobility assistance devices are typically used to assist |
| device. As an increasing number of seniors opt for a | | | | individuals with disabilities and or other infirmities that |
| scooter its reputation is becoming one of an optional | | | | may be incident to accidents, disease, age or similar |
| mobility device and not necessarily a substitute for a | | | | causes. Mobility assistance devices are designed to |
| wheelchair. | | | | help these individuals get into and out of reclining, sitting |
| Mobility scooters are usually more affordable than | | | | and/or prone positions on a bed or similar piece of |
| motorized wheelchairs and do not have the same | | | | furniture or object designed for one to sit, lie down or |
| stigma of association with old age and infirmity that | | | | sleep on. Mobility assistance may also involve |
| wheelchairs do. Mobility scooters are often a far more | | | | transferring a client who is in a wheel chair. |
| appropriate solutions for persons with certain very | | | | Transferring maybe done from bed to chair and back |
| common disabilities. Mobility scooters allow you to | | | | and from toilet to chair and back, bath or shower to |
| accomplish everyday tasks in and around the house | | | | chair and back or car to chair and back. The client |
| and gives freedom and independence to be active in | | | | must be able to bear weight in order to assist with |
| the community, workplace, mall or school. Road legal | | | | transferring. |