TY - GEN
T1 - Caregiver centered transfer aid designed for home care needs
AU - Liu, Kao Hua
AU - Chen, Chien Hsu
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - In this study, an innovative transfer aid is proposed to respond to home care needs of ageing society. The fact that long-term care demanders nowadays prefer to live with their families and friends indirectly results in the gradually increasing number of non-professional caregivers. The incidence of work related injuries of amateur caregivers will be higher than professional nurses. Among all of the nursing activities, patient handling (PH) is the most frequently reported injuries. It is not uncommon to see even the professional nurses getting hurt from transferring patients, not to mention the non-trained caregivers. One of the reasons is that they are not familiar with transfer aids, such as when and how to operate proper aids. Accordingly, the operation of transfer aids for patient handling during home care must be reconsidered and redesigned. Activity theory and Contextual design were adopted in this paper to redesign the caregiver centered transfer aid.
AB - In this study, an innovative transfer aid is proposed to respond to home care needs of ageing society. The fact that long-term care demanders nowadays prefer to live with their families and friends indirectly results in the gradually increasing number of non-professional caregivers. The incidence of work related injuries of amateur caregivers will be higher than professional nurses. Among all of the nursing activities, patient handling (PH) is the most frequently reported injuries. It is not uncommon to see even the professional nurses getting hurt from transferring patients, not to mention the non-trained caregivers. One of the reasons is that they are not familiar with transfer aids, such as when and how to operate proper aids. Accordingly, the operation of transfer aids for patient handling during home care must be reconsidered and redesigned. Activity theory and Contextual design were adopted in this paper to redesign the caregiver centered transfer aid.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-41688-5_7
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-41688-5_7
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84979686906
SN - 9783319416878
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 69
EP - 78
BT - Advances in Social and Occupational Ergonomics -Proceedings of the AHFE 2016 International Conference on Social and Occupational Ergonomics
A2 - Goossens, Richard H.M.
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 7th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics, 2016
Y2 - 27 July 2016 through 31 July 2016
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