Currently, the aging of the population has become the world's social problem. With the increase of aging population and lots of disability, paralysis makes nursing care more difficult. Because of many elderly cann...Currently, the aging of the population has become the world's social problem. With the increase of aging population and lots of disability, paralysis makes nursing care more difficult. Because of many elderly cannot get timely care, the phenomenon that the elderly have chronic diseases has become more and more serious. It is important to research and develop a new product which can help the elderly and the disabled for improving the quality of their life. This paper suggests a new type of multifunctional self-caring wheelchair-bed, which is combined with a wheelchair and a bed. The bed can realize the free conversion among user sitting, leg lifting and lying down, and also can implement the function of turning on sides. Particularly, the wheelchair can be easily separated from the bed and combined, so that patients and the elderly can move freely using it, and even it can be transformed into a standing type to satisfy the patient's standing demand, and to a certain extent, carry out the purpose of rehabilitation.展开更多
基金National Natural Science Foundation of Chinagrant number: 11172208, 11072087 and 31000422+1 种基金Jilin Natural Science Foundationgrant number: 201115023
文摘Currently, the aging of the population has become the world's social problem. With the increase of aging population and lots of disability, paralysis makes nursing care more difficult. Because of many elderly cannot get timely care, the phenomenon that the elderly have chronic diseases has become more and more serious. It is important to research and develop a new product which can help the elderly and the disabled for improving the quality of their life. This paper suggests a new type of multifunctional self-caring wheelchair-bed, which is combined with a wheelchair and a bed. The bed can realize the free conversion among user sitting, leg lifting and lying down, and also can implement the function of turning on sides. Particularly, the wheelchair can be easily separated from the bed and combined, so that patients and the elderly can move freely using it, and even it can be transformed into a standing type to satisfy the patient's standing demand, and to a certain extent, carry out the purpose of rehabilitation.