Table 3.

Quotations related to post-stroke mobility consequences from stroke survivor and caregiver interviews (n=39).

Consequences	Stroke survivors (n=24)	Caregivers (n=15)	Protypical quotations
Assistive devices	15 (63%)	11 (73%)	“I…got me fitted for the leg brace.” (ss36);“ She has this fantastic Quantum high end chair” (c6)
Walk	14 (58%)	5 (33%)	“When I woke up I went to get out bed, I couldn’t walk or nothing.” (ss15); “Then suddenly, he can’t walk.”(c13)
Falls	9 (38%)	4 (27%)	“I had started falling.” (ss39); “Many times he fell in the bathroom.” (c24)
Modifications	3 (13%)	5 (33%)	“I had to make some modifications because I was in a wheelchair for a while and the house is not exactly wheelchair accessible.” (ss36); “We have a tilt bed. One of those beds you can raise. She used to be able to get in and out of that by herself and sit up with the back of the bed, pull into her fancy chair.” (c06)
Balance	3 (13%)	2 (13%)	“My balance is not good.” (ss23); “Very bad balance.” (c16)
Drive	2 (8%)	3 (20%)	“ They told me I couldn’t drive.” (ss42); “Initially he couldn’t drive, so I had to drive him everywhere.” (c15)
Transfers	2 (8%)	1 (7%)	“Initially, the transfers were very, very difficult.” (ss22); “I had to physically get him out and physically get him in the bathtub.” (c16)
Financial strain	2 (8%)	1 (7%)	“I don’t have it anymore because insurance ran out.”(ss35); “He needs Botox treatments, to be able to walk better, and I can’t afford to do it.” (c12)
Mobility	3 (13%)	0	“When I was discharged from the inpatient I did not have any movement in my left leg. I took me three to four months to... As the movement returned, it just returned to the knee and hip first and still hasn’t returned to the ankle or toes.”(ss16)

ss = stroke survivor, c = caregiver