Mobility aid

Additional aids are designed to facilitate mobility and transfers within buildings, including navigating between different floor levels.

[2] It refers to devices that provide a level of mobility comparable to unaided walking or standing from a seated position.

[3][4] Walking aids are devices designed to assist individuals with mobility impairments in maintaining upright ambulation.

Each type of aid is designed to support users in different ways, which include improving stability, reducing lower-limb loading, and facilitating movement.

These crutches have bands that encircle the forearms and handles for the patient to hold and rest their hands on to support the body weight.

A walker (also known as a Zimmer frame) is the most stable walking aid and consists of a freestanding metal framework with three or more points of contact which the user places in front of them and then grips during movement.

The Walk Aid Scooter allows a user with normal balance and foot, knee or hip conditions to unload the lower extremities.

A Registered Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist (few cases) are able to provide object and clinical testing to ensure proper and safe device recommendations.

Sometimes special purpose lifts are provided elsewhere to facilitate access for those with disabilities, for example at entrances to raised bus stops in Curitiba, Brazil.