IWalker: A ‘Real-World’ Molity Assessment Tool

In 2001, nearly 2.5 million Canadian adults reported difficulty with mobility tasks, such as walking, climbing stairs, or standing for long periods of time. Mobility aids, such as canes, crutches and walkers, play an integral role in addressing mobility impairments. The rollator (or ‘four-wheeled walker’) is an assistive mobility aid prescribed to facilitate standing and walking activities. Although North American numbers have yet to be compiled, 1 in 16 people aged 56-84 years in Denmark, and an estimated 250,000 Swedish (4% of the country’s population) are rollator users [1]. Despite the explosion in use, the literature examining the effectiveness and the underlying mechanisms in which rollators may influence mobility in everyday life is limited.