Manual Assistance Equipment for Moving and Transferring People in Bed

• Autor(a) principal: Alves, Marcelo
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Cavalcanti, Anna Luiza de Sá
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: DATJournal
• Texto Completo: https://datjournal.anhembi.br/dat/article/view/684
• topic: Mobilidade reduzida; Equipamento manual de assistência; Idosos; Tecnologia assistiva; Reduced mobility; Manual assistance equipment; Elderly; Assistive technology; Movilidad reducida; Equipos de asistencia manual; Personas mayores; Tecnología de asistencia

This article presents the applied research carried out in the Master’s in Design at University of the Region of Joinville (Univille). The investigation deals with problems related to people with reduced mobility, highlighting the elderly ones, who represent a growing population in Brazil. The frailty of the elderly often requires the assistance of a caregiver to perform daily activities. Even with several technologies available in the health area, the Brazilian market lacks equipment with affordable costs, safety, and effectiveness. The objective of this article is to present the development of the manual assistance equipment project, whose functions are to provide supported mobility and to help caregivers to move and transfer people with reduced mobility in bed. The methodological approach used was the design thinking. To achieve the goals, bibliographic research was initially carried out on the subject, and a field investigation occurred in two long-stay institutions in the city of Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Based on this survey and using design tools, we achieved a value proposition that underlies the project carried out.