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what is the percentage of disability in geriatric patients?

usually old patients suffer from mobility problems and they need for mobility device,wheelchair,walker,walking stick...etc


It depends on many factors, such as age and/or comorbid disease (degenerative neurologic or orthopedic), stroke, diabetes or heart disease. There are also patients who have had such mobility problems since childhood, and they are thrown into the mix, as well.
There is no "one size fits all" answer to your question.

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Oliver and Charlie don their Halloween costumes to vanquish The Geriatric Walker, kindly played by Grandpa Cal, who was recovering from knee surgery.


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