Enabling community mobility is an opportunity to practice social occupational therapy
- Autores: Janice Polgar
- Localización: Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, ISSN 0008-4174, Vol. 78, Nº. 2, 2011, págs. 67-71
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Without diminishing the importance of such work or the personal consequences of motor vehicle crashes, as occupational therapists, we also consider the mobility rights of other segments of our population, including individuals who no longer drive and who don't have access to a private vehicle, parents of children with disabilities who cannot be safely restrained in an approved child restraint system, people who use wheelchairs for mobility, people who live in rural or remote communities and those who live in poverty. Mobility within walkable distances is problematic, limited by physical capacity to manoeuvre, features of the travel surface such as uneven or absent sidewalks, weather challenges and municipal plans that cluster residential areas at a distance from retail and other service venues. The lack of reliable, useable and affordable transportation and environments in which basic needs and services can be met in a distance that is walkable are barriers that exclude individuals with a wide range of mobility limitations from participation in social and civic occupations.
