操縦車分離型介護ベッドにおける移乗支援機構の開発

抄録

Recently, the demand for nursing care services has increased in Japan with the aging of the population. However, there is a chronic labor shortage of caregivers because of high turnover rates due to their occupational illnesses. In particular, so-called back pain is the most common occupational illness, and transfer assistance by caregivers is one of the major causes of back pain. To reduce the physical burden on caregivers, we have developed a nursing bed with a maneuvering chair needing no transfer assistance. In this developing process, we also produced a sheet push-pull mechanism that transfers the care-receiver on the nursing bed to the maneuvering chair side. This paper reports the feeling of use and usability of the sheet push-pull mechanism.