Mobility scooters can give the elderly a new lease of life. Photo / File
Elderly people may be fit and well, in the possession of a modern car and a valid driving licence, but when they have to face Tauranga's horrific traffic battle on the road to the supermarket, medical centre, dentist or other necessary journey they tremble in fear.
However there is hope
for them in the shape of a modern sophisticated mobility scooter.
I live in one of the delightful leafy suburbs far away from the CBD and some distance from delights of shopping centres, but with a mobility scooter there are four supermarkets within range, in addition to three doctors, two dentists, three bank branches, two opticians and other very necessary aids to a comfortable retirement.
Our wonderful city council has laid out at great expense a network of cycle tracks through field and bush, straddling major highways with million-dollar bridges, so that it is possible to ride a mobility scooter to sylvan destinations well away from the fumes of the mass of SUVs cluttering our urban roads.
Exploring this network gives the possessor of a mobility scooter a new lease of life and returns the freedom that retirees once enjoyed in their long departed youth.
