Rules and regulations concerning four wheeled walkers and electrically powered scooters at commercial establishments

• 영문명: Rules and regulations concerning four wheeled walkers and electrically powered scooters at commercial establishments
• 발행기관: 아시아장애사회학회
• 저자명: AJIMI Akiko
• 간행물 정보: 『아시아장애사회학연구』11호, 75~86쪽, 전체 12쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 사회복지학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2011.01.01

영문 초록

Given this factor, the objective of the present research is to shed light on rules and regulations pertaining to four wheeled walkers and electrically powered scooters set forth by commercial establishments, viz. department stores and supermarkets that mainly sell food items (hereinafter “ Retail Stores") ‘ From October to November 2009, questionnaire survey was conducted by distributing the questionnaire through post 70% of the commercial establishments had the users of electrically powered scooters among their visitors, while almost all commercial establishments had the users of four wheeled walkers among their visitors. However, very few commercial establishments had put these equipments on their agenda list for discussion and study, and moreover they didn’t organize any training about these equipments Although most of the commercial establishments didn’t permit the use of these equipments , some of the establishments thought "although we do not proactively allow or encourage, if a user of electrically powered scooter visits us, we allow him to use " Reason was , there were concerned that it would cause trouble to people in surrounding area