Sept. 2019 update: 10 months later and the foot rest has stopped working. Even worse, it got stuck in the up position, which made it very difficult for my mobility-impaired father to get out of the darn thing. :( 

Original review (Dec 2018):
Bought this for my father who had a stroke and is still regaining mobility. We love how nice it looks and he says it's really comfortable. A neighbor put it together for us so I can't speak to that, but it's easy to use with just two buttons on the remote (up and down). It took us an embarrassingly long time to figure out you keep pushing the down arrow button to get the foot rest to come up!