AOTA Community Mobility

Question 1

define community mobility

Answer 1

moving around in the community and using public or private transportation, suhc as driving, walking,bicycling, or accessing and riding in buses, taxi cabs, or other transporation systems

Question 2

what are the forms of community mobility?

Answer 2

public transporattion - buses, trains, etc.
personal transportation - cars, bikes
commercial transportation - taxis
supplemental transportation - volunteer options

Question 3

what are the five a’s of senior-friendly transportation

Answer 3

availablilty, acceptability, accessibility, adaptability, and affordability.

Question 4

describe the americans with disabilities act of 1990

Answer 4

established accessibility guidelines for public transpiration
established a mandate for complementary para-transit services that determined that a person,m regardless of disability, cannot access fixed route public transportation and is therefore eligible for complementary para-transit service under three categories - inability to navigate fixed route, unavailability of public transportation, or impairment related inability to board.

Question 5

define SAFETEA-LU

Answer 5

safe, accountable, flexibile, efficient transporation equity act.
funded safe reoutes to school programs that provided 100% of federal funding to facilitate states initiatve to create safe envuronments surrounding schools and encourage children to bike and walk to school

Question 6

describe the medicaid transportation providions

Answer 6

receipts of medicaid may be eligible for subsidized transportation for health care and life maintenance trips.

Question 7

define walkability

Answer 7

extent to which the built environment is pedestrian friendly

Question 8

define livibility

Answer 8

extent ot which a community fulfuills principles outlineed by the national council on disability regarding the physical, social, and transportation environments.

Question 9

name some specific community mobility interventions

Answer 9

travel training - short term, direct, and intensive training to teach older adults and people with disabilities ot use fixed-route public transpo safely and independently.
mobility management - services tha tpromote collab and coop among transportation providers and connect clients ot those providers
systems-level interventions - possible roles for OT addressing ciommnunity mobiity include consultation with transportation systems on issues.