TY - GEN
T1 - Physical Burden on Caregivers Pushing Wheelchairs
AU - Kadomatsu, Hiroyuki
AU - Sudo, Suguru
AU - Nakashima, Yasutaka
AU - Yamamoto, Motoji
N1 - Funding Information:
*This work was supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C) (JP17K01566) and the Meiji Yasuda Life Foundation of Health and Welfare. Hiroyuki Kadomatsu is with the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan (corresponding author; e-mail: kadomatsu@ce.mech.kyushu-u.ac.jp). Suguru Sudo is with the Undergraduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. Yasutaka Nakashima is with the Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. Motoji Yamamoto is with the Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
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© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/4/25
Y1 - 2019/4/25
N2 - Population aging is progressing rapidly in Japan. Amid this climate, while the numbers of older people are increasing, the population of people at a physically productive age and capable of providing nursing care is decreasing, bringing about a shortage of caregivers. Wheelchairs remain indispensable devices for supporting the mobility of older people who have weakened muscular strength. Research on improving the main body of wheelchairs and supporting passengers has been conducted for many years; however, there has been little research on caring for the burden of caregivers pushing wheelchairs. In the present study, we quantitatively evaluated this burden in terms of the posture assumed in pushing a wheelchair. Through this, we propose a method of reducing this burden.
AB - Population aging is progressing rapidly in Japan. Amid this climate, while the numbers of older people are increasing, the population of people at a physically productive age and capable of providing nursing care is decreasing, bringing about a shortage of caregivers. Wheelchairs remain indispensable devices for supporting the mobility of older people who have weakened muscular strength. Research on improving the main body of wheelchairs and supporting passengers has been conducted for many years; however, there has been little research on caring for the burden of caregivers pushing wheelchairs. In the present study, we quantitatively evaluated this burden in terms of the posture assumed in pushing a wheelchair. Through this, we propose a method of reducing this burden.
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U2 - 10.1109/SII.2019.8700400
DO - 10.1109/SII.2019.8700400
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85065667688
T3 - Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, SII 2019
SP - 401
EP - 405
BT - Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, SII 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2019 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, SII 2019
Y2 - 14 January 2019 through 16 January 2019
ER -