TY - JOUR
T1 - Development of the lift assist chair for the elderly people “Rakutateru”
AU - Ahrary, Alireza
AU - Yang, Won Seok
AU - Inada, Masayoshi
AU - Nakamatsu, Kazumi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - According to the survey on actual situation of elderly persons at home or nursing home care, the first item after concerning about disease under treatment is “Weak legs and difficulties to stand from seat”. Muscle strength further decreases with aging and make feeling burden when standing from seat. Also, people who are suffering from secondary symptoms such as bedsores and keep sitting in a seat for a long time are on the rise. The most burdensome for elderly persons when trying to stand up from chair is to bear the weight themselves. In this paper, we introduce “Rakutateru” which is specially designed to support elderly persons to easy stand up from seat and keep people to more active and independent. We also evaluate the validity of assist unit which is contained inside the lower part of the Rakutateru surface.
AB - According to the survey on actual situation of elderly persons at home or nursing home care, the first item after concerning about disease under treatment is “Weak legs and difficulties to stand from seat”. Muscle strength further decreases with aging and make feeling burden when standing from seat. Also, people who are suffering from secondary symptoms such as bedsores and keep sitting in a seat for a long time are on the rise. The most burdensome for elderly persons when trying to stand up from chair is to bear the weight themselves. In this paper, we introduce “Rakutateru” which is specially designed to support elderly persons to easy stand up from seat and keep people to more active and independent. We also evaluate the validity of assist unit which is contained inside the lower part of the Rakutateru surface.
KW - Assist chair
KW - Elderly support chair
KW - Lifting unit
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U2 - 10.1016/j.procs.2018.04.182
DO - 10.1016/j.procs.2018.04.182
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85061245079
SN - 1877-0509
VL - 131
SP - 31
EP - 37
JO - Procedia Computer Science
JF - Procedia Computer Science
T2 - 8th International Congress of Information and Communication Technology, ICICT 2018
Y2 - 27 January 2018 through 28 January 2018
ER -