Abstract
Many elderly people don't go outside so often because of physical motor impairment and inconvenience of public transport. One of the reasons, it is difficult to access public transport services by a personal mobility. From such a background, we suggest a four-wheel type electric power-assisted personal mobility for care prevention. In order to check the performance of mobile support equipment, we have experimented for three healthy elderly subjects (male 1 and female 2) using this equipment. The purpose of this experimental is to evaluate the physical load of user by the oxygen uptake values while they are running at Ochikata area (the roadway grade 0.9% course and the roadway grade 5.8% slope course) of Sasayama city, one of rural area in Hyogo prefecture. The new personal mobility has been suggested that elderly people support to health maintenance, public transport access and go outside. These results can be used for the development of new mobility equipment and method for improve physical ability of the elderly.
