Abstract:

This paper focuses on the population using wheeled mobility devices—wheelchairs and scooters—and trends over time. It provides a profile of their demographic characteristics; health and disability status, including diagnoses and impairments and physical functioning, health insurance status, and unmet needs using the latest available published information supplemented with some original analys is. The accessibility of mobility device usersﾒ homes and larger environments is also discussed, demonstrating that improvements in physical accessibility must remain a priority for millions of mobility device users who continue to experience accessibility barriers, as of 1997.