Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : September 11, 2022 - September 14, 2022
The number of people requiring nursing care is increasing in Japan. This is because individuals in this older segment of the population tend to suffer more falls and other accidents than others. This background highlights the need for the development of a fall prevention method. Various research for fall prevention has been studied for this problem. We also have proposed a new method for fall prevention based on the phenomenon called Light Touch Contact (LTC), in which lightly touch to an object with the fingertips reduces the body sway. This paper introduces the development of a wearable device for fall prevention based on the LTC phenomenon and a fall risk assessment index based on large-scale experimental data of more than 1,000 subjects as examples of our past efforts.
