Chairs or seating mounted on wheels and designed to be controlled or propelled by the occupant. Medicare Part B (Medical Insurance) covers power-operated vehicles (scooters), walkers, and wheelchairs as durable medical equipment.
    

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A man in a striped t-shirt with his arm around another man who helps him to walk down a hospital corridor with a wheelchair and drip stand near by; with an appeal for support for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe donation account for the special care of the sick. Colour lithograph by Ingo Taubhorn and Wolfgang Mudra.

A gouty man in a Bath chair out shooting with his dogs, his black servant sniggers behind him. Engraving.

A gay man helping his partner who is disabled and has AIDS; an advertisement for caring for disabled partners with AIDS. Colour lithograph by M. Taubenheim and W. Mudra for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V.

St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: a corner of the Gibbs courtyard with many trees and the fountain in the centre. Etching by Lillian C. Smythe.

A physically disabled boy sitting in a wheelchair on a beach. Photograph, ca. 1910/1925.

Disability : transport ephemera. Box 1.

Welcome to my world ! / by Jane Kenny.

Assisted travel : how we can help / South West Trains.

Specification of William George Nicholas Manley : ambulance wheeled litter.

Four scenes from the Royal Hospital for Incurables at Putney Heath, London. Wood engraving, 1881.

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Disability : transport ephemera. Box 1.

Welcome to my world ! / by Jane Kenny.

Assisted travel : how we can help / South West Trains.

Specification of William George Nicholas Manley : ambulance wheeled litter.

Four scenes from the Royal Hospital for Incurables at Putney Heath, London. Wood engraving, 1881.