Demand Study And Appliance Design For Disabled Elderly Who Needs Long-term Care

With the rapid increase of Chinese social and economic transformation of China, andthe average life expectancy, the age structure of the population showing a rapid agingand aging of the large-scale trends. Therefore, elderly health problems, especiallyproblems of daily living increasing attention. Status of the urban and rural elderlydisability ’survey forecast Office on Aging and the National Research Center on Agingrecently released China, the urban and rural parts of the country by the end of2015andfull disability disability elderly will reach40million. Daily living elderly is limited, ina longer period of time need someone to take care of, which is called long-term care.Long-term care process, not only requires a lot of human input, but more convenientand effective care appliances were assisted. The progress of society, the family modelof independence, disabled elderly care of powerless groups and disabled elderly toimprove quality of life and care, long-term care appliances are put forward higherrequirements.Based on this problem, the paper disabled elderly conducted in-depth research andfound that the real demand for long-term care products. This paper focuses onlong-term care for the elderly disability content on the terms of the functionalrequirements and design principles of long-term care products, such as a study.Research into the physiological and psychological characteristics of the elderly analysis,analysis of care and appliances, disabled elderly care survey and analysis of activitiesof daily living, disabled elderly long-term care appliances design practices into fourparts. The current long-term care and nursing appliances conduct research and analysis,summarized the current state of care appliances use, problems and trends. Targeted tothe disabled elderly population and long-term nursing staff carry out specific research,analyze and summarize the process of long-term care real difficulty.For real long-term care needs of the disabled elderly, at the conclusion on the basis ofexisting appliances move, combined with the current trends in ergonomics as the core,and fully consider the psychological factors associated with which to study the field of long-term care appliances the relationship between the environment, the design of ahigh-security, high efficiency, low cost of long-term care move appliances. The designand implementation of the nursing staff to easily move disabled elderly Desksconversion functions, for long-term care to provide a convenient and improve thequality of their lives.