Mobility impairments

By its very nature, a hospital should be an accessible building. Most patients cannot be discharged except from a sitting position in a wheelchair. The building s design, however, does not necessarily assist persons with mobility impairments in all circumstances. If the generators fail in a multistory hospital, wheelchair users, together with those who rely on canes, walkers, and similar devices, cannot be evacuated by elevator. They can leave only via the stairs, and then only in specialized evacuation devices. 

Several companies make products to assist evacuation by wheelchair users or others with severe mobility impairments. Note, the needs for the use of any such device might be as a result of a disability (mobility, respiratory, or cardio), a pregnancy, or an injury as a result of the event triggering the evacuation at hand, to point out but a few examples. The most widely known are lightweight chairs used to carry a person down a stairway. A man with quadriplegia safely evacuated the World Trade Center on 9/11 using a comparable piece of equipment. In his case, he and his coworkers trained on this equipment procured for him after the 1993 bombing. 

Nobody Left Behind Program at the University of Kansas. Information on the ongoing research project to investigate 30 randomly selected counties, cities, or boroughs in the United States that have recently experienced a natural or man-made disaster in order to study impacts on persons with mobility impairments. The Web site has an extensive resource list at http //rtcil. org/NLB home.htm... 

Mobility impaired may need assistance in getting to a shelter. 

If you are mobility impaired and live or work in a high-rise building, have an escape chair. 

Used for patients with mobility impairments that make it difficult to reach a toilet in a timely fashion... 

Used in men with urge, stress, and overflow incontinence and in those with functional impairments Used for overflow incontinence also used in patients who are bed-bound or with significant mobility impairments and severe incontinence, those with terminal illness, and those with sacral pressure ulcers until healing occurs... 

Power wheelchairs are often used in conjunction with a number of other adaptive devices. For people with severe mobility impairments, power wheelchairs may be used with communication devices, computer access devices, respirators, and reclining seating systems. The integration of the users multiple needs must also be considered when designing or prescribing a power wheelchair. 

DEFINITION— For purposes of paragraph (I), the term wheelchair means a device designed solely for use by a mobility-impaired person for locomotion, that is suitable for use in an indoor pedestrian area. 

When designing a kitchen for use by persons with mobility impairments, especially those who use wheelchairs, careful layout of the kitchen is crucial to maintaining accessibility. People who are mobility impaired may... 

One of the key issues to consider when designing for persons with mobility impairments is adequate space to maneuver a mobility aid such as a wheelchair or walker. 

Icemaker. This eliminates the nuisance of filling up and emptying ice trays for mobility-impaired individuals. Location of icemaker dispenser should be next to the water dispenser. 

A large number of people use wheelchairs to move from one point to another in the United States. In fact, as per the 2000 census between 1.6 and 2.2 million people in the United States rely on wheelchairs to compensate for mobility impairments [23]. Adverse incidents associated with wheelchair use are not uncommon. As per Refs. [23,24], on the average over 36,500 wheelchair-related nonfatal accidents occur annually and approximately 1 wheelchair-related death occurs per week in the United States. The majority of these adverse events are directly or indirectly associated with falls. 

Jiang H, Wachs JP, and Duerstock BS, Integrated vision-based robotic arm interface for operators with upper limb mobility impairments, IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, Seattle, Washington, DC, United States, June 24-26,2013. 

Road Safety Audit considers the safety of all road users and in particular vulnerable road users such as the visually and mobility impaired, cyclists, pedestrians, equestrians, motorcyclists, children and the elderly. 

Road users with mobility impairment Many people have either temporary or permanent mobility impairments. It is estimated that more than 750 000 people are regular wheelchair users while many more will have difficulty walking. 

There is a need to obtain and examine road accident data involving people with a mobility impairment. Data on accidents involving wheelchair users would be very useful. 

Mobility audits are carried out to check that people with disabilities are not disadvantaged in any way by a scheme design. The audits consider the provision for visually and hearing-impaired pedestrians, wheelchair users and mobility-impaired people. The publication Inclusive Mobility is a useful point of reference for anyone carrying out these audits. The latest requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act 2005 could lead to these audits becoming more... 

Kerb upstands create trip hazard Mobility impaired ... 

Many people have either temporary or permanent mobility impairments. It is estimated... 

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