Development of a telescopic boom-type nursing care lift that is friendly to the care recipient

Abstract

Transfer care is important to expand the range of activities of the care recipient and improve the quality of life. Therefore, in recent years, many floor-moving long-term care lifts have been developed, but many of them have an unnatural posture when used, which causes a problem that the mental and physical burden on the care recipient is large. The authors are developing a telescopic boom-type nursing care lift that reduces the burden on the care recipient by bringing the lift-up trajectory closer to the natural standing-up trajectory of the person. In this paper, we report mainly on the introduction of lumbar support wire and universal design as a further improvement of the proposed nursing care lift.