[Purpose of Using Mobility Scooters as Transportation Devices for Community-dwelling Elderly People and Changes in Their Daily Life].

Elderly people need a means to be able to move at their own will in order to stay socially active. One of the means of transportation is a mobility scooter. The purpose of this study was to find out how community-dwelling elderly people came to use a mobility scooter as a means of transportation and how they use it in their daily lives.