ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the salient features of the new scene of disablement, as it is clearly foreseen and actively prepared by the World Health Organization in the targets of the Health For All in 2000 program. The World Health Organization has proposed in 1980 a tridimensional approach to the consequences of diseases, with a complete new set of definitions, which certainly helps clarifying the process along the following scheme: Disease or Disorder ➨ Impairment ➨ Disability ➨ Handicap. People have experienced for the past 10 or 15 years a growing concern of the disabled and elderlies for better services, including transportation, and their rights in these fields are being recognized. The disabled are consumers not only of health, but also of other societal resources, and they behave as such. Overall mobility could be defined as making all transfers at home, getting in and out of home, and going to chosen places in a comfortable and timely way.
