{"id":3374,"date":"2016-12-19T09:15:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T12:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=3374"},"modified":"2016-12-19T09:15:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T12:15:22","slug":"quickstats-use-of-equipment-or-assistance-for-getting-around-among-persons-aged-50-years-or-older-national-health-interview-survey-2014-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2016\/12\/19\/3374\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Use of Equipment or Assistance for Getting Around Among Persons Aged 50 Years or Older \u2014 National Health Interview Survey, 2014\u20132015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/65\/wr\/mm6549a7.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/65\/wr\/figures\/m6549qsf.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"447\" height=\"312\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2014\u20132015, 13.9% of persons aged 50 years or older used equipment or received assistance for getting around. Specifically, 9.6% of persons aged 50 years or older used a cane or walking stick, 5.8% used a walker or Zimmer frame, and 5.3% had assistance from another person.<\/p>\n<p>Wheelchairs or scooters were used by 3.5%, crutches by 0.7%, and artificial limbs by 0.6%.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/65\/wr\/mm6549a7.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/65\/wr\/mm6549a7.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2014\u20132015, 13.9% of persons aged 50 years or older used equipment or received assistance for getting around. Specifically, 9.6% of persons aged 50 years or older used a cane or walking stick, 5.8% used a walker or Zimmer frame, and 5.3% had assistance from another person. Wheelchairs or scooters were used by 3.5%, crutches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}