Comparative study of physical care burden on caregivers for elderly excretion care between human manual care and robot-aided care based on hierarchical excretion care task model
J. B. Ko, H. J. Keom, C. K. Lee, B. H. Won, J. S. Hong
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AbstractConventional excretion care using diapers is one of the hardest task that causes severe burden on caregivers (Kumagai et al., 2005). In nursing homes, excretion care is performed about six times a day and this repeated excretion care task increases the risk of musculoskeletal disorders in caregivers. With the development of robotic technology, care robots that can help caregivers in excretion care have been developed (Yamazaki et al., 2012). However, study on the effectiveness of care robots, which quantitatively compares and evaluates the physical care burden between using diapers (MC, human manual excretion care) and care robots (RC, robot-aided excretion care) is very limited. To conduct a systematic comparative study on MC and RC, we developed a hierarchical care task model for each type. An experimental study was performed to compare physical care burden for each care task.Keywords: hierarchical task analysis, excretion care, physical care burden, care robot
J. B. Ko, H. J. Keom, C. K. Lee, B. H. Won, J. S. Hong (2022). Comparative study of physical care burden on caregivers for elderly excretion care between human manual care and robot-aided care based on hierarchical excretion care task model. Gerontechnology, 21(s),3-3
https://doi.org/10.4017/gt.2022.21.s.541.3.sp1