It was hard enough getting some of my patients to use mobility devices when they could very straightforwardly benefit from them.
There's a stigma associated with it.
You are helping to perpetuate that stigma. This causes actual real harm.
Using the walker on the magazine cover is not deliberately ableist.
And at some point people are going to have to learn discernment and how to view creative media within the context it’s presented.
The walker on the cover is to the point of an elderly person no longer being at full faculty.
