Elderly and Cars

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It never ceases to amaze me that when we talk about something new in class I open my eyes up to what's going on in the world and how the world designed for users of all abilities. It never occurred to me how hard it was for an elderly person to get out of a chair or something like that which is to us so simple.
Have you ever seen an elderly person get into a car? That seems to be no easy feat either. I have a great aunt Evelyn who is 96 right now and she just barely started using a walker in the past year because it got to the point where it was incredibly hard for her to just get that one foot in front of the other with a cane..so now she has her "cadillac," which is just the name for her walker.
Whenever we go to South Dakota to visit her she always wants to take us to dinner. Getting her into the car is quite an extensive operation. She has to grab onto something to be able to even get a grip on getting herself in the car and when she finally gets a grip she almost has to take her other hand and manually move her foot up into the car. Once she gets one foot in the car she just kind of plumps down and every time she comments on how it's so hard for  her to even do something so simple.
She just does not move like she use to and it bums me out that it's not even easy just to get her into the car and take her somewhere.
Have you every watched an elderly man or lady be helped into a car? Generally they are always holding on to someone and bracing themselves so that they have even more leverage to get into a car.