抄録
In recent years, the population of young people has been decreased due to the declining birth rate and a growing proportion of elderly people, and the elderly over the age of 65 increases. In the caregiving in the old-age home, physical burden of caregiver increases due to the increase of their work. In these point of view, we have developed a care transfer machine to reduce the physical burden of caregiver in the caregiving work. In this study, the physical stress of the care receiver that caused by the proposed care transfer machine is investigated. The measurement of physical stress is performed by using EMG. As results of the measurement, maximum muscle potential is 0.03 [mV] in riding action. Further, muscle potential in the consciously straining is 0.06 [mV]. Therefore we estimate that the developed transfer machine doesn't affect the physical stress on the care receiver through some experimental results.
