Research On Mobility Devices for the Elderly Living In Nursing Homes

本研究旨在通过关注居住在护理设施中的老年人的独立运动，阐明适应真实的生活领域的移动设备的设计要求和对使用环境的要求，并进行与老年人运动和新型辅助设备的干预评估有关的调查。通过对老年人的研究和评价，在参与阶段提取了以下因素：设计需求项应促进“自我产生的动机”、“安全性”、“环境适应性”、“可操作性”。“此外，一个新的辅助设备的评估协议的基础上，干预评估的案例研究有关的故障安全制动系统的轮椅。未来，本研究将在此基础上，提出真实的生活中的介入评估方法，作为辅助科技发展的技术之一。

This study aims to clarify the design requirements of mobility devices that adjust to the real life field and the requirement to the use environment by paying attention to the independence movement of the older persons that live in the nursing facilities, and to conduct surveys which will be concerned with the movement of the older persons and to the intervention evaluation of new assistive devices. Based on the study and evaluation of the older persons the following factors were extracted during the participation phase: The design requirement items should promote "self produced motivation," "safety," "environment adaptability," "operationality." Moreover, the evaluation protocol of a new assistive device was developed based on the case study of intervention evaluation about the fail-safe brake system of the wheelchair. In the future, the aims to propose the methodology of the intervention evaluation in the real life based on the present study as one technique of the assistive technology development.