There is something important you are overlooking when it comes to the elderly and scooters. I will use my gram as an example.  Independence is the issue. My gram is in her 90s, had her hips and knees replaced over the years, still gets around fine but shopping takes a lot out of her. She will not use a scooter for several reasons.    She is embarrassed to admit that she may need help.   Is unsure how to work one since she doesn't use one all the time and she has arthritis in her hands so holding the accelerator lever is difficult.    Doesn't want to be seen as "weak" even though at 94 and I say she should be carried around Cleopatra style on a couch by some hunky shitlord men with amazing abs.   She said she would have to stop the scooter, get off to stand and reach things that are high up then sit down again which gets difficult after the 20th time she has to do it. A good point actually.   In her words "scooters are for people who have up" though her sister (91 years old) needs one for severe balance problems and and she think nothing poorly of her for doing so.   So when you look at it from my nana' s perspective, leaning over a cart and using it for balance is easier than sitting and having to get up and down a whole lot. My nana dropped out of art school in her early years and went to work during the war designing war bond posters and putting her skills to work to  "help our boys at war." This is not a generation that just gives up on anything. They find a way to keep going which is the exact opposite of couch bison. They give up and accept defeat even though they caused the issue in the first place. I would love nothing less than  to see all the elderly who have earned the right to use a scooter to be scooting around in pimped out buggys instead of hunched over carts at the market. But they are tough, far tougher than they need to be, and they won't use a scooter until they absolutely have to. It just isn't how they got through their youth and they won't let go of that.  One of my biggest worries is my nana having a fall she won't come back from. It keeps me awake some nights. But I know that she will not give up what she sees as independence to become a "weakling" in a scooter. There is a sense of fear with the older folks about not being able to do for themselves. I don't blame them for that and frankly I get it. I don't get how someone who eats themselves to the point of needing a scooter to buy more garbage and get fatter can live with themselves.  Edit: Sorry for the rant. I get really pissy when I think of undeserving sacks of lard using something for the disabled and elderly. Any of you fine shitlords want to carry my nana on a couch through the market like Cleopatra? I think I could get her on board with that lol.