Shelters often lack necessary equipment and medications for disabled people who do evacuate, like hearing aids, walkers, wheelchairs or ventilators, Ramirez said.
Fallers displayed greater impairments in activities of daily living and had a higher probability of using a mobility aid (cane, walker, or wheelchair).
Shortly after noon, dozens of buses drew up around the cathedral carrying hundreds of elderly and disabled men and women, many of them in wheelchairs or moving with the aid of walkers, canes or crutches.
Instead, he added medical aids like walkers, braces and support hose and nutritional products.
They came in bow ties and crimson gowns, spry of step or aided by walkers, their college memories more or less intact.
This may explain why wheelchairs were more frequently used than walking aids and walkers were more frequently used than crutches and sticks.
Scarpa finally went home in October, with the aid of a walker.
In her tenth decade, she requires the aid of a walker or a cane.
In fact, Hooper still walked to his box at Gulfstream Park racetrack in Florida with the aid of a walker as recently as last winter.
