Development of safe and easy to use excretion tool for the elderly

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24660038
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Community health/Gerontological nurisng
• Research Institution: University of Miyazaki
• Principal Investigator: NEMOTO Seiji 宮崎大学, 医学部, 教授 (40218277)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): YOSHINAGA Saori 宮崎大学, 医学部看護学科, 助教 (50560596)
• Research Collaborator: TABUKI Mako ; KINOSHITA Hiroe ; KURAMOTO Eriko ; KIYOKAWA Takuma
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 排泄 / 高齢者 / 簡単 / 安全

Outline of Final Research Achievements

To simplify the excretion behavior of the elderly, it can utilize the women underwear and disposable pads, have developed a new tool excretion. First, the tool is made by cutting the underwear from both sides of the waist vertical and horizontal at pubic part. Tools for women were completed by bonding a cut portion with a special tape. The adhesive tape is resistant to long-direction, and can be cut with a finger in the horizontal direction. Tools for men compared to women, the front consists of double cloth, is in the middle of the cloth there is a circular hole that separates the penis and testicles, there are more, square hole for a disposable pad. Therefore, the middle of the cloth to prevent the feces contaminated the external genitalia. Special adhesive tape is also used in tool for men.
Even if this tool had incontinence, instead of take off the underwear, safe and easy, so break the junction by the tape with the fingers, dirty with excrement does not spread.

Free Research Field

基礎看護学、看護生態学