Development of a walking safely monitoring system

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K15902
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Gerontological nursing
• Research Institution: Kyoto Tachibana University
• Principal Investigator: Murata Shin 京都橘大学, 健康科学部, 教授 (00389503)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 安全歩行検診システム / 転倒予防 / バランス歩行 / 歩行能力

Outline of Final Research Achievements

When providing nursing care for elderly people, it is particularly important to adopt dysbasia- and fall-related approaches. The present study was aimed to enhance the method of adopting fall-prevention measures depending on conventional high-risk or population approaches with the addition of a new fall-prevention system referred to as a “walking safely monitoring system”, which adopts these two approaches in combination. As a result, the walking safely levels as clarified by the system favorably represented elderly people’s upper/lower extremity muscle strength, standing balance, and cognitive function. Thus, the system confirmed the validity of walking safely levels recorded on walking safely monitoring cards. In addition, as a result of conducting an intervention study, subjects’ walking levels were maintained at one year, and the rate of falls decreased from 23% in the previous year to 18% this year, suggesting the benefit of the system.

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