The study of wearable auxiliary tool for behavior assistance of elderly who requires nursing care.

Abstract

HRRC conducts research and development on powered exoskeleton for bathing care from 2015. This study is the prototype3 production and verification experiment in early stage. In order to investigate the effectiveness of reducing the burden on prototype3 wearers, we conducted verification experiment with healthy subjects. To the result, the subjective assessment of prototype3 wearers showed a reduction in burden. This has the potential as a wearable auxiliary tool.