Talk:Walker (mobility)

Why
Why is this page redirected from 'baby walker'? They're similar in use, but completely different products.

British English
Frankly, "Zimmer frame" isn't just "often" used here in the UK; it's almost universal, and used as a genericised trademark in the same way that "Hoover" is used for "vacuum cleaner". Usage examples: BBC News, The Guardian. Actually a lot of people here would give you odd looks if you called it a "walker", because they'd be thinking of a baby walker! When we do use a generic term, it's "walking frame", as seen in that BBC article. 81.153.111.9 13:21, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Patrick Stewart also used the term "walking frame" in the recorded bit he did for the "Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond" special in 1996. -Etoile (talk) 15:38, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

old-fashioned, not modern walker in picture
Don't have time to add the following info and pictures and the term rollator now: http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/rollator/ rollator, rollator, rollator --Espoo 08:22, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Change?
Shouldn't the walker be at the top of the page because walker is unusual nowadays. NERIUM (talk) 18:28, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

Suggestion to separate into two articles
Even though the article isn’t long, I propose to split it into two: "Walker (mobility)" and "Rollator".

Reasoning: On the Dutch Wikipedia, there’s an article "Rollator", but it can’t be linked to this English article (in the list of Languages in the left column) because that link is already in use for "Looprek" (Walker). I suspect this is the case for quite some Wikipedias.--Geke (talk) 16:17, 24 January 2019 (UTC)


 * This seems unwise, since 'walkers' and 'rollators' are so similar (and with, as you say, not enough content to justify two articles), and because Rollator is a brand name. 31.94.73.241 (talk) 10:36, 21 July 2023 (UTC)