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As of October, 2012, the Japanese population was found to be aging at a rate of 24.1 %. The results determined that the rate of aging for this sector of the Japanese population makes Japan one of the most aged societies in the world.
As the aging population continues to increase in size, we anticipate that more nursing will be necessary to accommodate the future needs of seniors.
Due to the complex nature and challenging field of senior care, nursing homes experience high employee turnover rates. The shortage of skillful employees is problematic, so the option of training employees without a nursing background may be an integral part of the solution.
Proper “transfer assistance between wheelchair and bed” is a fundamental element of senior care. However, large gaps in how to perform a safe transfer are noticeable amongst skilled and non-skilled caregivers. To analyze and provide seniors a safe and comfortable transfer, we measured seniors’ brain waves and facial expressions as transfers were performed by skilled and non-skilled caregivers. The experiment was not limited to the analysis of transfer techniques. Differences in brain waves, facial expressions, voice, tone and the requests of skilled and non-skilled caregivers were measured as well.
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The, White Paper on Aged Society, in the page 2, Cabinet Office (2012)
“Turnover Rates of Nursing Care Staff and Home Visit Care Staff” from “Care Work Factual Investigation”¸ Care Work Foundation
“New Employees’ Training Manual”, in the pp. 11–111, “Transfer and Move”, Zuikoen Nursing Home
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Ito, M., Takai, Y., Goto, A., Kuwahara, N. (2014). Research on Senior Response to Transfer Assistance between Wheelchair and Bed. In: Duffy, V.G. (eds) Digital Human Modeling. Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics and Risk Management. DHM 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8529. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07725-3_55
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